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Max Verstappen won his seventh Grand Prix of the year in Barcelona on Sunday – but it was no stroll in the park for Red Bull's championship leader.
The Dutchman was beaten to pole on Saturday by McLaren's Lando Norris, and then beaten into Turn 1 on the race start by George Russell who got a rocket start from P4 on the grid to lead coming out of the first corner.
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