Max Verstappen earned high praise from one of Lewis Hamilton's former Formula 1 team-mates in the wake of his impressive performance at last weekend's Japanese Grand Prix

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Hamilton boasts a pole-to-win rate of 58.65 per cent, which means Verstappen would need to lose his next 16 poles to have an equal record. Norris, meanwhile, has a rate of just 40 per cent, owing to his historically poor race starts.