F1 | Red Bull, Verstappen: “The start was the key, I was very determined to win”

Max Verstappen dominates the Mexican Grand Prix and gets his second victory of the season, ahead of the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen. Perfect race for the young Dutchman, who first took advantage of Daniel Ricciardo's bad start to take first position and then managed the pace of the race as he pleased without ever getting into trouble: “It's fantastic, the start was the key” – declared the Red Bull driver after the race. “I honestly didn't sleep very well last night, so I was really, really determined to win today and we did it luckily. Fantastic work by the team, we had the right tires available and then the car worked very well".

The discussion then moved on to the withdrawal of teammate Ricciardo, who at the end of the race alarmed Verstappen, frightened by the possibility of a similar failure on his RB14: “It was a shame to lose Daniel, it would have been nice to do a double or at least have two cars on the podium, but clearly when the other car retires you want to make sure that yours doesn't have the same fate" – he concluded.