If the first three races of the 2021 season have taught us anything about this year's championship battle, it's that tiny mistakes have the potential to be very costly.
It may seem unfair to point out errors rather than moments of brilliance from the racing we've seen so far (although we will focus on both in this article), but the standard of driving between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton has been set so high that it's often the errors that have a bigger impact.
Hamilton's win in Portugal, which moved him eighth points clear of Verstappen in the championship, was arguably in the top 10 percent of the 97 victories he has taken in his career.