🤔 Max Verstappen is 139 points behind Kimi Antonelli, but with 208 points still available, a fifth World Championship remains mathematically possible. ⠀ Max currently sits on 163 points compared with Antonelli’s 302, meaning he effectively needs to outscore the Mercedes driver by at least 140 points over the remaining season to move ahead outright. ⠀ The opportunity starts immediately at Sepang, where Verstappen has taken his first pole position of 2026, while championship leader Antonelli will start P3 and George Russell P7. ⠀ Eight Grands Prix remain including the Bahrain GP in Malaysia, followed by Singapore, Austin, Mexico City, São Paulo, Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, with Singapore also bringing another eight Sprint points into play. ⠀ If Max somehow collected the full 208 remaining points, he would finish on 371, meaning Antonelli could score only 68 more points for Max to beat him by a single point. ⠀ It would require an extraordinary collapse from Mercedes combined with an almost perfect run from