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Max Verstappen’s victory in the recent Miami Grand Prix may have looked relatively routine, but beneath the surface it was one of the most hard-fought wins of his Red Bull career.

The difference on this occasion was that Verstappen’s fight was not against a formidable foe – Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes or Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari – but against the frailties and fragilities of his own team.

The reigning World Champion carried the look of a weary man for much of the Miami weekend, increasingly irritated by Red Bull’s habit of, in his words, making life “super difficult for ourselves” in 2022.

Verstappen had been limited to just 15 laps across the two Friday practice sessions in Florida, a gearbox change and hydraulic issue costing him valuable track time at F1’s newest venue.

So when the time came to push his RB18 to the limit at the climax of qualifying, Verstappen lacked both the necessary confidence in the car and knowledge of the circuit to compete evenly for pole position.

Just like that, another little gift was handed to Leclerc and Ferrari.

Verstappen’s recovery from his poor preparation – passing both Ferraris within the first 10 laps to build a comfortable lead and then defending that advantage when the Safety Car left him vulnerable to Leclerc on cold tyres – made it one of the finest of his 23 grand prix victories to date.

Yet even as he