Max Verstappen’s victory in the recent Miami Grand Prix may have looked relatively routine, but beneath the surface it was one of the most hard-fought wins of his Red Bull career. The difference on this occasion was that Verstappen’s fight was not against a formidable foe – Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes or Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari – but against the frailties and fragilities of his own team. The reigning World Champion carried the look of a weary man for much of the Miami weekend, increasingly irritated by Red Bull’s habit of, in his words, making life “super difficult for ourselves” in 2022. Verstappen had been limited to just 15 laps across the two Friday practice...
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