“Today we showed our maximum, gave it our all.

And of course, this is a very difficult weekend for us, we dedicate this victory to Dietrich Mateschitz, ”Sky Sports quotes Verstappen.

Recall that on October 23, Red Bull co-owner Mateschitz passed away at the age of 78 after a long illness.

The entrepreneur owned 49% of the company's shares.

Verstappen covered the distance in 1 hour 42 minutes and 11.687 seconds.

The second result was shown by the British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton (+5.023).

Rounding out the top three was Ferrari's Polish driver Charles Leclerc (+7.501).

Earlier, Verstappen spoke about the last meeting with Mateschitz.