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Lando Norris made it two titles from two this season for the Papaya squad.

Back at home, the car was completely rebuilt. It was fitted with the High Downforce Kit and its new rear spoiler, GTR-like front bumper, and LM spec louvers. It was suddenly a mishmash of different McLaren body panels, though it was the last of eight F1s to get the same treatment.

In an era of the so-called franchise driver in Formula 1, McLaren had found its north start n the Englishman. It supplanted the need for a big-money Ricciardo-style racer and instead freed up the team to think about its future with broader horizons.

McLaren Racing is preparing to do something no major team has tried before. Three race cars from future seasons will be offered to the public in December, giving bidders a shot at machinery that hasn’t even been fully revealed yet.

Vettel was always the outside bet. He’d become F1’s youngest race winner in 2008, aged 21, but the pressure of his first championship fight through 2010 had tolled at points with some on-track errors. At no point had he led the standings, and it was only thanks to a late-season surge with wins in Japan and Brazil that he’d stayed in the hunt.