'Chucky' Verstappen is back. Luckily for Antonelli and Mercedes, it's too late

SINGAPORE -- Max Verstappen is back. Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix win made that clear enough. After 10 months and 15 Formula 1 races without a win this year, he now has two of them in the space of eight days. Fortunately for world-champion-to-be Kimi Antonelli and Mercedes, it's early October and there's just not enough time for the Dutchman to repeat his legendary 2025 fightback. Antonelli, who will have a slim mathematical chance of winning his maiden world championship at the U.S. Grand Prix on Oct. 25, said what everyone else must was thinking after finishing third on Sunday.