Love him or hate him, you simply can’t deny just how great Max Verstappen is. From nowhere he dominates the weekend, and makes the 2025 Championship, and power rankings, extra spicy.

The dream of a perfect season by McLaren ended in Suzuka, and perhaps they only have themselves to blame for it.

While it wasn’t the best way to start a F1 triple header with a fairly uneventful race in Japan, there were still plenty of takeaways to come from the third round of the 2025 F1 season.