The power of Verstappen’s F1 championship mindset

The Red Bull driver had been cool, seemingly bulletproof throughout the season. He brushed off the low moments and never appeared overly obsessed with viewing the world championship as some monumental life achievement.

“It’s not really going to change my life,” he had said back in October. To him, it was always simple: he and Red Bull do their best, and if that wasn’t enough to win the title, they could still sleep easy at night.

That mindset would have been put to its…