News, views and updates about four-time F1 World Champion Max Verstappen. The Dutch driver will be in a Red Bull car in 2025 as he looks to secure a record-equalling fifth consecutive Drivers’ Championship.
Red Bull star and reigning Driver Champion Max Verstappen secured P3 on the grid in Qualifying for the 2025 F1 Australian GP. The position came as a bit of a surprise after Red Bull struggled for pace at the start of the weekend. Verstappen even took provisional Pole in Q3 but ultimately had to concede…
Surprising qualifying results at the F1 Australian GP: McLaren dominates, Albon and Tsunoda shock the Ferraris, full report and results. After almost 99 days since the last qualifying, the checkered flag waved for the first time to kick off the F1 Australian GP qualifying, it’s light out and away we go! Q1 At the start…
Oscar Piastri wrapped up the final F1 Australian GP practice session on a high ahead of qualifying, setting the fastest time in FP3 and leading the pack ahead of George Russell and Max Verstappen, full report and results below. After Charles Leclerc topped the timesheets in FP2 at the F1 Australian Grand Prix, leading the…
Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson finished FP2 at the F1 Australian GP in seventh and 17th respectively, and while the Dutchman admitted that while there were no glaring issues in the Red Bull, they were just ‘lacking pace’. The biggest headline in the Red Bull camp was the title team being outperformed by their sister…
McLaren continued their impressive form in the first official session of 2025, as Lando Norris topped the timesheets for FP1 at the Australian Grand Prix with a lap of 1:17.252. Carlos Sainz came in second as Williams carried over their promising testing pace. The Spaniard led the latter part of the session with a time…
It’s a new season of F1 and Mercedes enter the competition with a new driver line-up, although Toto Wolff failed to get Max Verstappen — and it doesn’t look like it will happen in 2026 either. 3-time race winner George Russell will now be racing alongside 2022 Italian and ADAC F4 champion Kimi Antonelli. Mercedes’…
Reigning world champion Max Verstappen is not sure where Red Bull stands ahead of this year’s F1 Australian GP. He already expects McLaren to be the quickest come raceday, and in the FIA press conference he didn’t add any hope for his fans. “Positive shape, I guess. I don’t know,” Verstappen underwhelmingly answered when asked…
Max Verstappen is of the opinion that McLaren have a significant edge over Red Bull heading into the Australian GP, the first race of the 2025 F1 season. The Milton Keynes team has understandably tempered its expectations after pre-season testing did not produce the results they had anticipated. With unusual weather conditions in Bahrain limiting…
In the second part of Pit Debrief‘s exclusive interview with former F1 engineer Marco Schüpbach, we discussed his two years working as race engineer to Sergio Pérez, and why he struggled so much against Max Verstappen. He was the Mexican’s first race engineer in the sport. After working as a performance engineer for Robert Kubica,…
With pre-season testing in Bahrain now concluded, reigning world champion Max Verstappen has offered his thoughts on the RB21, the 2025 F1 challenger for Red Bull Racing, expressing cautious optimism about the improvements made over last season’s car. While the Dutchman acknowledged that it’s still early to draw firm conclusions, his initial impressions suggest the…
