Max Verstappen was greeted with a hero’s welcome when he returned to Red Bull HQ after winning the historic Formula One title, with the team lighting orange flares. This season, MAX VERSTAPPEN claims he and Lewis Hamilton HATED each other at times. The two had a titanic and contentious battle for the F1 championship, with the Dutchman emerging victorious despite a Mercedes appeal. Before their explosive finale in Abu Dhabi last Sunday, they famously came to blows at Silverstone, Monza, and in Saudi Arabia. Verstappen, 24, says his battle with Hamilton has been intense, and that the Mercedes driver is…