Verstappen dominated Sunday’s race at Suzuka to take his 13th victory from 16 races and help his Red Bull team clinch the constructors’ championshiꦦp for a sixth time. 

The Dutchman, who can now claim his third consecutive drivers’ title at the next round in Qatar, finished 19.3 seconds clear of McLaren’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris. 

Verstappen predicted his winning margin during a 🗹pad🧜el tennis game that Horner invited him to in the days after Singapore, where Red Bull had suffered a shock first defeat of the season. 

"We all left Singapore knowing that ultimately the winning run that we ha🤡d would come to an end, but we were still a little frustrated,” Horner said after Sunday’s r🌸ace. 

"I played padel tennis with Max on Wednesday and he was prop💞erly fired up and he said: 'I want to win the♔ race by 20 seconds’. 

"And in fairneꦓss, he came within 0.7s of achieving that.

"You could tell from the very first lap in FP1 where on the hard tyre, he was 1.8 seconds quicker than the rest of the field on medium or soft tyres𒆙 at that point, he was totally focused on this event. 

"It was an outstanding performance. His final lap in qualifyi🐷ng has got to be up there with one of🐬 the best laps of all time in qualifying.

"And then he converted that after not the best of getaways, but he was able to hang on toꩵ the lead aꦬnd then thereafter build a very commanding lead and control the race.” 

After taking a commanding pole position on Saturday, Verstappen told his critics to168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: “suck on an egg” if they believed Red Bull’s drop in performance at the Singapore Grand Prix was linked to a new FಞIA technical directive. 

Asked whether the theories had given Verstappen extra𒈔 motivation, Horner said: “He's just a racer. He doesn't need a lot of motivation, but he certainly came here very kee💯n to reestablish the season he's been having."