Newly-crowned four-time F1 world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen says he kept his focus on on-track matters despite the “messy” polit෴ical turbulence that embroiled his Red Bull team.

The 27-year-old’s fifth-place finish in the Las Vegaꦡs Grand Prix was enough to see him retain his drivers’ crown and wrap up the 2024 world title with two races remaining🐽.

Verstappen started the season in dominaꦡnt fashion but his Red Bull team was engulfed in scandal after a female employee made sexual harassment allegations against team princip👍al Christian Horner.

The controversy surrounding Horner resulted in political in-fighting involving Verst🐬appen’s father, Jos, and Red Bull motorsport advisor and Verstappen’s close confidant Helmut Marko, and led to doubts about the Dutchman’s future.

But Verstappen did not let the off-track noise affect him, and despite Red Bull suffering from a dip in performance, he kept his cool to be🃏come the sixth driver in F1 history to win at least four world titles.

“The beginning was quite, let's say, a bit messy, but I think I'm quite calm in those situations,” Verstappen said after the ▨race.

“I think it's very difficult to disturb me wiꦜth anything. I'm very focused on the racing side of things. I know that when I sit in the car, I forget aboꦫut everything, even positive, negative stuff.

“I just fo💎cus on what's ahead of me, and that's performance, and drive the car as fast as I can.”

Horner labelled Verstappen’s latest crown as his “best and hardes♏t” championship to win.

When ask💎ed if he agrees with Horner’s view, Verstappen replied: “I thin꧟k so, too.

“I m🌊ean,𓃲 last year, I had a dominant car, but I always felt that not everyone appreciated what we achieved as a team, winning 10 in a row. Of course, our car was dominant, but it wasn't as dominant, I think, as people thought it was.

“That's for sure my ꩵbest season [2023]. I will always look back at, because even in places where maybe we didn't have the perfect set-up, we were still capable, because in the race, our car was always quite strong, to win races.

“But I'm also very pro♈ud of this season because for most of the season, I would say for 70% of the season, we didn't have the fastest car, but actually we still extended our lead. So that is definitely something that I'm very proud of.”