Gasly seems faintly bewildered by the designation. “It’s not every day you get called that,” he says, laughing, before noting that his own self-image hasn’t exactly caught up with the headlines.

Pérez shrugs it off too. “I don’t feel that, myself,” he says. “I’m just a normal person.” (A normal person who spends his Sundays reaching top speeds of 200-plus mph while wearing flame-resistant underwear.)