Verstappen impresses: "Showed incredible dominance"

Mika Hakkinen enjoyed Max Verstappen's performance during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend. The ease with which he cruised to victory at Spa-Francorchamps is impressive to the two-time world champion.

"This was a fantastic performance from Verstappen all weekend. He had great pace in practice, but in qualifying was on another level compared to everyone else. To be more than half a second quicker than the next guy, and 0.8s quicker than team-mate Sergio Perez, showed incredible dominance," Hakkinen wrote in his column for Unibet.

Verstappen like a warm knife through butter

Verstappen had to come from 14th on the grid, yet the Dutchman was actually the big favourite from the very beginning. "He did it so quickly – into the top three on lap eight and leading on lap 12. Spa does make it a little easier for a quick car to overtake, particularly on the long straight to the les Combes chicane, but you still have to position the car in the right way, and Verstappen was in perfect control."

According to Hakkinen, it is now clear that Verstappen will take his second world title in Formula 1. His lead over Charles Leclerc is 93 points and with only eight races to go. The former McLaren star sees Leclerc grabbing a few more victories, but he believes that is all there is to it.