Video: Max Verstappen, double World Champion

Max Verstappen has won his second F1 Drivers’ World Championship after winning the Japanese Grand Prix in dramatic fashion.

The win secured the 14th win of the season for the Red Bull Team, the most in their history and his title.

The son of a karting mega talent and former F1 driver, whose childhood was molded around the singular intention of forming the ultimate driver. A karting prodigy himself, his ascent was every bit as fast as his famous father.

So rapid was his climb to the top, new regulations were brought in to attempt to stop such a possibility in the future. But Max was never the norm. He was the exception. And exceptional.

It was at Suzuka back in 2014 that a 17-year-old Max Verstappen drove a Formula 1 car for the first time on a grand prix weekend.

Eight years later, as he celebrates his second World Championship, on a difficult wet Suzuka track, he displayed his once in a generation rare natural ability, making all the other drivers, including his teammate Sergio Perez in the identical car, look like rank amateurs.

From the day a very young teenager in a Red Bull hat strolled into the paddock in 2014 and finessed an F1 car around the very difficult Suzuka as if he had been doing it for 20 years, there has been a sense of history about to play out before our very eyes.

Max Verstappen, they said, would change everything. And now he has, and will continue to do so.

Who, in all reality, can stop him now?