Damon Hill believes that Max Verstappen is in a better position than Lando Norris heading into the final stint of the season.

“I think possession is nine-tenths of all of it,” he said on the Sky F1 podcast. “He’s got the points already Max, and they’re sitting there, but they are watching it being eaten away. And it’s just a question of how fast the rats are eating the cheese.

“You know, they are sitting there anxiously, but they’re the people in the lead. And if you see it as a race, it literally is how many tenths of a second are they taking out per lap before they cross the line, you know?

“So it’s better to be in a position with the points. You can turn it around, find something, find a solution to the problem they’ve got and find some gain, but they really are just playing out the advantage they’ve got.”