Max Verstappen expects to be fighting for race wins and the Formula 1 world championship with Red Bull in 2018 in response to a luckless campaign marred with technical issues and retirements.
Sebastian Vettel is eager to draw a line under his Singapore Grand Prix start collision with Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen and says it won’t alter how it attacks the blasts off the line.
Jetting off to this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, there wasn’t the same kind of inevitability hanging in the air about the news that would follow as there had been two weeks ago in Singapore.
Jolyon Palmer has admitted that scoring his first points of the Formula 1 season in Singapore last weekend felt like "a weight off the shoulders", but is determined to carry this good form through the final six rounds of the year.