- Sergio Pérez finishes second; Carlos Sainz third
- Lewis Hamilton crashes out on opening lap
What better way to throw down the gauntlet than with an emphatic statement of intent? And while doubtless Max Verstappen has had little time for Shelley in his short, hectic career his win at the Belgium Grand Prix assuredly boomed: “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Echoing Ozymandias’s grand declaration, this was a victory giving notice of his and Red Bull’s superiority, rolling across the echo chamber of the Ardennes mountains.
