The double victory in Rome that ignited Mitch Evans’s championship aspirations was the best indicator of the Kiwi at his relentless best: the Jaguar driver roared through to the front of the pack in both instances, and left the Italian capital with a 50-point haul.
The issue was that the opening three races had yielded just one point, and he was always playing catch-up afterwards. The electrical heartbreak in London, which effectively ruined Evans’s title chances, was followed up by victory in Seoul’s first race. That takes a special kind of determination.
