Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

But in his initial years, he was prone to making mistakes, often too ___(1)___, and at times his driving bordered on the dangerous. However, over the last four years, Verstappen has matured to strike a balance by cutting out the errors without ___(2)___ on his speed and aggression. Despite being 46 points down to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc after the first three races, Verstappen remained calm to slowly overturn the ___(3)___. In races in Hungary, Belgium, and Italy, where he often started from the middle of the pack, Verstappen was ___(4)___ on the opening laps to fashion spectacular wins from lowly grid positions as he went on a five-race winning streak to run away with the title. For fans of the sport who had their appetite ___(5)___ after last year’s pulsating battle between Hamilton and Verstappen, 2022 was a damp squib as Ferrari and Leclerc’s early season promise faltered as a mix of reliability issues, strategic blunders and driver errors robbed the fans of a close fight for the title. Verstappen is now the 17th member of an elite club of drivers to have won multiple titles. If his team Red Bull can continue to give him competitive machinery over the next few years, this could be the start of the Verstappen era in Formula One.