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When finishing first comes second

If you're a Max Verstappen fan, it probably won't have escaped your attention that his exemplary win on Sunday appeared to have escaped the attention of everyone else.

The Red Bull publicity department will also have noted markedly few mentions of their man in Monday's media reports; one British national newspaper revealing, almost as an afterthought in the final paragraphs of their Lewis Hamilton eulogy, the identity of the race winner. Verstappen followers shouldn't take it personally; this has always been the way of the writing world, probably since Giuseppe Farina became the very first champion back in 1950.