Max Verstappen picks his favourite overtake in 2019!

The scrap between the two young stars was already selected as the Action of the Year at the yearly FIA ceremony, as they fought and overtook each other several times at Silverstone with both drivers refusing to yield.

Verstappen was looking for a gap everywhere he could but Leclerc defended brilliantly, and when the Monegasque did get overtaken, he made sure he would have a good launch onto a straight so he could regain his position. Eventually, Verstappen got the better of his rival.

Asked by teammate Alex Albon to pick his favourite overtake of 2019, Verstappen first mentioned his move on Lewis Hamilton for the lead in Brazil, but eventually settled for his long battle with Leclerc.

"In Silverstone, six minutes of action with Charles, that was pretty intense," the 22-year-old said in Red Bull's yearly review on their YouTube channel.

"I think it was like six or seven minutes. They [Ferrari] were slow pace-wise but they were super fast on the straights. So, through Maggots and Becketts I was catching them but just not enough. I opened up DRS and they were still so quick. 

"Always on the end of that [straight] I was there, but I couldn't get him [Leclerc]. I'm trying into turn 3, into turn 4, out of 4 into 5, everything."

Eventually, Verstappen did overtake the SF-90 after both cars had come in for fresh rubber, as the Dutchman describes.

"I was in front, actually, after the pitstops, but then I locked up a bit at turn 4 and he got me. Then, one or two laps later, I got him somehow," he concluded although he couldn't pinpoint how he finally got the better of the Ferrari. 

"I think I got him through a pitstop."