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Where sport and soap opera mix

Criticism of 'contrived' F1 finish, but what a story line for Drive to Survive

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Dylan Cleaver
Dec 13, 2021
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Dutch delight as Max Verstappen is crowned champion after Mercedes’ protests are rejected. Photo / Getty Images

Was it sport, entertainment, a soap-opera or the pay-off line in a long-running joke?

It was a little bit of everything.

One of the great man-and-machine duels of modern times between Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton came to…

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