Max Verstappen

“It takes a lot of dedication” — F1 rivals give their thoughts on Fernando Alonso’s contract extension and racing into their 40s

Magdalena Put5 months ago5 months ago012 mins

Fernando Alonso recently signed a multi-year contract extension with Aston Martin, which will see him racing through 2025 and, notably, 2026, when the new technical regulations come into effect. Having initially retired from the sport at the end of the 2018 season, Alonso made waves by announcing his return to the sport just a few…

Drivers voice concerns over Chinese F1 GP Sprint weekend format

David Coath5 months ago5 months ago09 mins

F1’s return to China already has momentous moments ahead as it is Zhou Guanyu’s first time racing in front of his home crowd in F1 and also a 20-year celebration of the circuit. Whether it also needed to be an F1 Sprint format will be long debated but as far as the top three finishers…

Wolff says the 2024 F1 season can still be “exciting” even as he predicts more Verstappen dominance

Magdalena Put6 months ago6 months ago07 mins

After retiring with a brake issue barely three laps into the Australian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen claimed victory from pole position in Japan, remaining unchallenged throughout the race to finish 12 seconds ahead of his Red Bull teammate. Ferrari have established themselves as second-best, with McLaren emerging as the third force behind the front-runners. It’s…

Horner: Verstappen “emphatically” bounced back with dominant win at F1 Japanese GP after Australia DNF

Nicolas Lopes6 months ago5 months ago07 mins

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner was full of praise for Verstappen following a dominant weekend for the team around the Suzuka circuit at the 2024 Japanese GP, in which they secured a 1-2 in both qualifying and the race, bouncing back “emphatically” after a disappointing weekend in Melbourne last time out. At the front,…

Verstappen satisfied with dominant win in F1 Japanese Grand Prix, after “hiccup” in Melbourne

Ewout Albrecht6 months ago6 months ago06 mins

Formula 1 is a simple sport, 20 man race for 305 kilometres, and in the end Verstappen wins. This paraphrase of Gary Lineker’s famous quote seems all too applicable on Formula 1 these days. Even when there is an interesting race because the high tyre wear, the Dutchman makes winning a Grand Prix look like a walk in the park.

F1 Japanese GP | Race | Verstappen wins easily in interesting Grand Prix dominated by tyre wear

Ewout Albrecht6 months ago6 months ago012 mins

Saturday’s qualifying resulted 27th front row for Red Bull Racing, so beforehand another walk in the park for Max Verstappen was anticipated. But with a 40°C track temperature, a lot warmer than during practice, tyre wear would be the big question mark for today’s race.

“A bit of a question mark” — polesitter Verstappen has concerns about F1 Japanese GP race pace

Lucrezia Costa6 months ago6 months ago07 mins

The championship leader took his third pole in a row at Suzuka by topping every single qualifying segment. Not only it was a great weekend for Verstappen, it was an overall very impressive display from both Red Bull drivers at the home track of their current engine provider Honda. “I think around here, at Suzuka,…

F1 Japanese GP | Qualifying | Verstappen pips Perez by just 0.06s to take pole position in exciting Suzuka Q3

Nicolas Lopes6 months ago6 months ago012 mins

Max Verstappen secured a fourth consecutive pole position of the season at the 2024 Japanese GP, beating his team-mate Sergio Perez by the slender margin of just six hundreths of a second, in what proved to be an excting final part of qualifying at Suzuka. Q1 Q1 began in cloudy conditions at the Suzuka circuit….

F1 Japanese GP | FP3 | Verstappen leads Perez and the two Mercedes drivers in final practice

James O'Connor6 months ago6 months ago04 mins

On a cloudy morning at Suzuka, the drivers quickly took to the track after FP2 was basically written off because of the weather. A 1:30.265 from Max Verstappen kicked things off in FP3 on the mediums, 0.188s ahead of Sergio Perez. The Haas of Kevin Magnussen got it wrong at the hairpin, losing the rear…

Red Bull Chief Engineer Paul Monaghan explains the exact cause of Max Verstappen’s shock DNF in the F1 Australian GP

James O'Connor6 months ago6 months ago06 mins

Red Bull Chief Engineer Paul Monaghan has detailed the reason for Max Verstappen’s surprising retirement at the Australian Grand Prix. The Dutch driver had been on a remarkable run of 43 consecutive points finishes, dating back to early 2022. Ironically, his last DNF had been at Albert Park early in that campaign. By lap 3…