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Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen celebrating after winning the Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen celebrating after winning the Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

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Max Verstappen admitted that it was a struggle to keep the tyres within their temperature window in a Canadian Grand Prix that simply surrendered to him, but the one time that he seemed remotely unsettled came as he was

speeding to a milestone victory on Sunday

and ran over a kerb. As his car bounced and vibrated momentarily, he laughed over the radio.

“I almost knocked myself out on that kerb!” he chuckled on the 65th of the 70 laps.

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