McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes Max Verstappen wouldn’t be able to beat Red Bull if he were in Oscar Piastri’s or Lando Norris’ car, with it being described as “impossible”. The Woking-based team improved significantly last season courtesy of a huge upgrades package at the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix, which turned the side into
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Max Verstappen has stressed that Red Bull don’t design their car purely to suit him, despite claims made last year by Sergio Perez’s father. The Dutchman was consistently able to extract more performance from the RB19 on his way to his third consecutive Drivers’ Championship, leading to suggestions that the car was designed for him,
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Carlos Sainz is certain that Red Bull and Max Verstappen rarely went “100 per cent” in 2023, despite the fact the Dutchman claimed 19 wins from the 22 completed races. The Red Bull driver cruised to a third consecutive Drivers’ Championship with complete ease, with him winning several races by over 10 seconds. Sainz was
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Max Verstappen’s long-time sponsor from the last decade, Jumbo, have left the three-time World Champion, with the company’s chief executive having explained the reason why. The Dutch supermarket chain have decided that now is the right time to split from the Red Bull driver, whilst they will also stop sponsoring the Dutch Grand Prix at
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Max Verstappen has admitted that the constant changes being made to the Formula 1 format has made the sport “like a circus”, whilst he’s also made a suggestion on how to avoid drivers being disqualified during Sprint weekends. The three-time World Champion has been against Sprint weekends ever since the concept was initially discussed, with
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Ex-Formula 1 driver Christijan Albers believes Lewis Hamilton is “the only one” capable of defeating Max Verstappen this year, but that Mercedes need “a better car” for the British driver to really take the fight to the Dutchman. Hamilton has endured two winless seasons since being controversially defeated by Verstappen in the race for the
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has stressed that the side don’t force Max Verstappen to always give a “PR view” when completing his media duties, with the Dutchman having the “freedom” to say what he wants. Verstappen’s honest and sometimes brutal approach to his media duties has been criticised somewhat in recent months, most
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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner believes Red Bull and Max Verstappen will be challenged for the titles in 2024, with Charles Leclerc being the driver that Steiner would like to see become World Champion. Leclerc put up no fight for the title in 2023, mostly due to a mixture of poor performances and a bad
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Ex-Formula 1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella has described Max Verstappen as “a cannibal”, with the Italian admitting that the Dutchman is destroying the entire grid. Verstappen has been the driver to beat the last three seasons, as he’s collected three consecutive titles. Whilst in 2021 he was matched throughout the campaign by Lewis Hamilton, he has
MoreEx-Formula 1 driver Johnny Herbert doesn’t think Max Verstappen will “bow out early”, because he has a real chance at eclipsing Lewis Hamilton’s and Michael Schumacher’s seven titles. This year, there has been growing speculation that Verstappen could retire from F1 when his current contract expires at the end of 2028, when he’ll be just
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