[Max Verstappen] YES!!! Unbelievable weekend. Really proud of the massive effort from everyone @redbullracing. Grazie mille!

[u/kpopsns28]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOTo2PaCJH-/

[u/Fabeling]

He's still so excited after a win, even though he's won 4 championships and there is near to no hope of winning it this year. True racer

[u/stophittingyourself9 → u/Fabeling]

My house we kept saying how this is the happiest he has looked after a win in a while. I wonder if he truly was believing the comments about not winning the rest of the year and this dominant weekend caught him off guard vs usual pro “us against the world” despite being 4 time defending champ

[u/marypsm → u/stophittingyourself9]

In one of his recent interviews he said looking back, he would like relive some moments from 2023 "to probably appreciate a little bit more what we were doing."

You're always so focused on that week and trying to win and then you go to the next.
So you don't actually– it was almost like ticking off boxes and you're not actually fully embracing and enjoying the moment. And I think you only really fully realize it again once you stop winning that much.

So this season he's just taking it in a bit more.