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In The Driver's Seat: Ice-cool Mad Max takes charge of title race
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Red Bull's Max Verstappen (above) has a 12-point lead over Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in the drivers' standings with just five races left.
PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
You could characterise Max Verstappen's outstanding US Grand Prix in terms of manual symbolism.
Once he had lost the start to archrival Lewis Hamilton, he embraced a super-aggressive strategy devised by his Red Bull team to gain him all-important track position, pitting as early as the 10th of the 56 laps, to get the undercut on the Mercedes.
