Formulation One world champion Max Verstappen took inventory of his new standing on Monday and revealed that Mercedes group boss Toto Wolff, regardless of threatening to attraction, had texted his congratulations.

The 24-year-old handed Purple Bull their first title since 2013 in Abu Dhabi on Sunday when he overtook Mercedes’ seven occasions world champion Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of the ultimate race of the season.

Mercedes had two protests dismissed however have signalled they intend to take the matter additional.

Hamilton and his father Anthony congratulated Verstappen and father Jos after the race however Wolff stayed out of sight.

“Toto despatched me a textual content, congratulations on the season and that I deserved to win it, in order that was very good of him after all,” Verstappen, barely worse for put on after an extended evening of partying, instructed reporters on a video name on Monday.

“Lewis is a good sportsman on the whole. He got here as much as me and congratulated me and it will need to have been after all very robust in that final lap,” he added.

“But it surely additionally reveals the respect now we have for one another.

“After all we had our robust occasions all through the season however ultimately we respect what we have been doing and we have been pushing one another to the restrict the entire season. It has been actually gratifying racing towards him.”

Verstappen needed to wait some hours for the stewards to dismiss the protests however then it was occasion time with the entire group, from engineers to caterers, celebrating into the daybreak.

“After all after I awoke that was not so enjoyable. I regretted perhaps that last drink,” stated Verstappen. “I believe lots of people have a headache for the time being.”

The champion admitted to some nerves on Saturday evening, when he was itching for the battle to begin, however he had managed to sleep.

There was no disappointment within the race ending amid controversy, a security automotive interval ending simply in time for one essential lap of racing due to the intervention of race director Michael Masi.

“I believe it simply sums up the entire season on the whole. It has been fairly loopy and intense,” stated Verstappen.