Max Verstappen’s come-from-behind win in the pouring rain at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday didn’t just put him a lot closer to a fourth straight Formula One title.

The reigning Formula One world champion was in unfamiliar territory: Starting seventeenth on the grid, with only two cars behind him (and one in the pit lane), and his title rival, Lando Norris, way, way ahead of him on pole position.

Damon Hill described victory for Max Verstappen in Brazil as “absolutely one of his very best”, a week after criticising the Red Bull driver’s approach in Mexico City. Hill’s words, in which he partly described Verstappen’s defensive tactics as “Dick Dastardly stuff” against Lando Norris in Mexico,