Windsor explains why Norris is wrong: 'Red flag stop wasn't just luck'

"Probably is Max's best-ever win. Now, I know there are lots of chattering voices out there saying, 'oh yeah, but he didn't just go all the way through the field. He had to have the help from the red flag and the Atlas of Strategy call. It was luck, whatever it was. Plus, he was stuck behind Charles for too long, really, to be right up there with the very best, blah, blah, blah'," Windsor said in his latest video.

"Well, the first thing I would say is that I don't think that that red [flag] stop was just luck or even a great strategy call. I think it was Max using the tyres in that first phase of the race better than any other driver on the track. And I say that because of what we could see. What we could see was a recently resurfaced Interlagos on which it was very difficult in the wet to do any of the normal things. In other words, to go offline, to look for the grip," he continued.

Verstappen peerlessly fast

According to Windsor, Verstappen, therefore, also faced a big challenge when he came from the 17th on the grid in Sao Paulo. "Where you can't really go off-line. There wasn't a lot of crud off-line. There wasn't a place you could go different from the normal racing line because of this new surface," he added.

At the finish, he had a gap of almost 20 seconds from Esteban Ocon. "Sadly the TV director didn't spend a lot of time on Max once he'd got the lead, but in those closing laps, once he got past Esteban Ocon, I counted 15 fastest laps. This wasn't Max just absolutely on the ragged edge. This was Max feeling the grip. The track was obviously getting quicker as the race ran out. This was Max feeling the grip, doing exactly what he'd been doing all race, turning in a little bit earlier than everybody else," Windsor concluded.

This article has been created in collaboration with Matt Gretton