Max Verstappen News
| Pos | Driver | Pts |
|---|---|---|
| 7th | Max Verstappen NED | 26 |
Formula 1 president Stefano Domenicali says he is confident Max Verstappen will not leave the sport despite the four-time world champion having recently expressed concern over new regulations for the 2026 season.
Four-time world champion Max Verstappen has insisted he is "motivated" for the new Formula 1 season despite revealing concerns about the sport's new regulations.
Red Bull chief Laurent Mekies has admitted he expects the team "to be trailing" their front-running rivals at the start of the 2026 Formula 1 season.
Red Bull revealed a throwback blue livery for the 2026 Formula 1 season as the team ushered in a new era at their launch event in Detroit.
Max Verstappen has confirmed he will race with the number three on his car during the 2026 Formula 1 season.
Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies said his team will push Formula 1's rules "to the limit and sometimes beyond" as he insisted the Milton Keynes squad will remain aggressive under his leadership.
Lando Norris says he will "expect everything" in Sunday's title-deciding Abu Dhabi for a race he starts between title rivals Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri in his bid to win his maiden Formula 1 world championship.
Assessing some of the key potential factors at play for the Decider in the Desert as Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri take 2025's unpredictable battle for the Formula 1 world title down to the nerve-jangling wire.
Max Verstappen said Zak Brown could call him "Chucky" after the McLaren chief likened him to a "horror movie" character amid his pursuit of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in an F1 title race that has gone down to the wire.
Formula 1's 2025 title fight will be settled by a thrilling three-way decider in Abu Dhabi after Max Verstappen beat Oscar Piastri to victory in the Qatar Grand Prix and championship leader Lando Norris finished only fourth.
Lando Norris has accused Max Verstappen of "talking nonsense" after his title rival claimed that he would have won this year's Formula 1 world championship "easily" in the Brit's McLaren car.
Max Verstappen has warned Oscar Piastri that he can "label himself a number two driver" if he sacrifices his own championship hopes to aid his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris' title bid.
Max Verstappen holds an advantage of being under less pressure in F1's title fight than Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, according to former world champion Sebastian Vettel - who also says the Dutchman's continued rate of improvement is "scary".
Max Verstappen says he "meant it" after he told Lando Norris his "time would come" after the British driver missed out on last year's title.
Max Verstappen has admitted that he made "a mistake" by crashing into George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix after everything "went red" for him amid extreme frustration.
Red Bull's two Formula 1 teams will launch their new 2026 car liveries for the first season of the sport's new rules era together in January at a Ford event in Detroit to kick off their new engine partnership with the American car giant.
It was a cracking Sao Paulo Grand Prix all round, with a frenzy of action, overtaking and controversy, and it didn't even need rain to spice things up.
Max Verstappen ruled himself out of the Formula 1 title race as he insisted that he had to "be realistic" despite a thrilling comeback to finish third in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen said he couldn't understand how his car could be "this bad" as Red Bull suffered their worst qualifying performance since 2006 at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Formula 1's three-way title race resumes this weekend in Brazil with a different McLaren driver at the top of the standings for the first time in over six months.
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| # | Driver | Pts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi Antonelli | 100 |
| 2 | George Russell | 80 |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | 59 |
| 4 | Lando Norris | 51 |
| 5 | Lewis Hamilton | 51 |
Find out the full schedule for F1 in 2026, who drives for who and how to watch it all live on Sky Sports
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Latest F1 news & video on your mobile
Sign up and save 10% off your first purchase.
| # | Driver | Pts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi Antonelli | 100 |
| 2 | George Russell | 80 |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | 59 |
| 4 | Lando Norris | 51 |
| 5 | Lewis Hamilton | 51 |
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