It is a few things that went well for him that was out of his reach. I mean Mercedes is not as good as they used to be, which has nothing to do with Max but it did helped him a lot, on top of that Ferrari used to be better than them for a while in the early races, but then they screwed up as a team and now they are feeling stress every week, we may talk about how horrible the team is and how they are ruining the chances of the drivers, and you think they do not read about it? They are all very well aware of all the things we write and it puts more pressure on them and makes them do more mistakes. So, Max is of course great, but other teams are worse too.
On the 3rd practice all was "in order" - Verstappen 1st, Leclerc 2nd. I think we no longer may say that one cars are definitively faster on straight/fast tracks (like Monza), like it was some time ago.
1.5 hour left for your bets. I decided to risk and bet on 'other' drivers, as bets are much more promising than 1.27 for Verstappen.
Warning message still appears, any chances to solve it in upcoming days?