We all knew there was something special about Max Verstappen, why else would Red Bull have recruited him at the age of just 16? But now we know there is real character behind the talent.
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has long bemoaned the lack of personality among today's crop of drivers, appreciating the fact the social-media driven environment and culture has turned them into virtually corporate automatons.
Take Ecclestone's biting remarks in May in the build up to the Monaco Grand Prix when he practically humiliated Nico Rosberg by telling the German "you are not good for my business".