Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Max Verstappen isn’t in Formula 1 to waste anyone’s time – not yours, not his team’s and certainly not his, which made his answer to the question everyone wanted to ask entirely on-brand. Ahead of this weekend’s season-opening grand prix in Melbourne and the dawn of a new regulatory era for the sport, most of the key teams and stakeholders had presented a united view ranging from cautious optimism to qualified uncertainty of the seismic rule shift. Max Verstappen couldn’t win the championship last year, but he’s racing as well as ever.Credit: Eddie Jim Verstappen? No chance. The way to drive cars starved of battery energy, relative to their predecessors, was “not very Formula-1 like,” he said with a shrug during pre-season testing. The new cars were “anti-racing”, a “big step back to how it was”. Enjoyable? “Not a lot of fun,” was his response.…