Nationality: Belgium / Holland
Date of Birth: 30 September 1997
Drivers championships:
2021,
2022,
2023,
2024
Grand Prix victories: 63
Races started: 209
Pole positions: 40
Teams:
Red Bull 2016 - Present,
Toro Rosso 2015 - 2016
Max Verstappen career
Max Verstappen is the son of the former F1 driver Jos Verstappen and came through carting and one season in Formula 3. He had comparatively little race experience when joining F1. When he started the first race of 2015 he was the youngest driver to start a race (17 years and 166 days) and the youngest driver to score points in his second race. His first race win was in Barcelona in 2016 and made him the youngest driver to win an F1 grand prix and also the youngest driver to be on the podium, and this on his first dive after being promoted to Red Bull. He is considered to be a quick driver but the Red Bull from 2017 to 2020 was not as quick as the Mercedes. However in 2021 he and Lewis Hamilton fought for the title down to the last controversial lap of the last race, leading him to win his first championship. He followed this with consecutive drivers championships in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Instagram
Previous seasons
2025
Team: Red Bull
Position:
Points:
Race wins:
Pole positions:
2024
Team: Red Bull
Position: 1
Points: 437
Race wins: 9
Pole positions: 8 Max Verstappen won his fourth drivers championship. He had a strong start to the season, but was then pushed hard by Lando Norris in the second half of the season. His team mate Sergio Perez had a difficult season meaning Red Bull only finished 3rd in the constructors championship.
2023
Team: Red Bull
Position: 1
Points: 575
Race wins: 19
Pole positions: 12 Max Verstappen and his Red Bull was completely dominant this season winning a record breaking 19 out of 23 races (86%). He became the first driver to lead over 1000 laps (1003) in a season which amounts to 75.7% of all racing laps. His nearest rival was team mate Sergio Perez who was nearly 300 points behind him.
2022
Team: Red Bull
Position: 1
Points: 454
Race wins: 15
Pole positions: 7 Max Verstappen was the dominant driver this season and comfortably won the drivers championship having won a record 15 races.
2021
Team: Red Bull
Position: 1
Points: 395.5
Race wins: 10
Pole positions: 10 Max Verstappen finally won his first world drivers championship in 2021. He and Lewis Hamilton fought all the way down to the last lap of the last race. Whilst there were controversies over the win, across the season Max Verstappen won more races and had more pole positions than Lewis Hamilton
2020
Team: Red Bull
Position: 3
Points: 214
Race wins: 2
Pole positions: 1 Max Verstappen was the best of the rest behind the two Mercedes drivers and he was able to take the race to Mercedes in a number of races, despite his Red Bull not being as quick as the Mercedes.
2019
Team: Red Bull
Position: 3
Points: 278
Race wins: 3
Pole positions: 2 Max Verstappen had a Honda engine this year which took him again to third in the championship behind the two Mercedes with three race wins and 9 podium finishes.
2018
Team: Red Bull
Position: 4
Points: 249
Race wins: 2
Pole positions: 0 He had a good season finishing the season behind a dominant Lewis Hamilton and the Ferrari's but ahead of Bottas in the second Mercedes. He had 2 wins in Austria and Mexico and 11 podium finishes.
2017
Team: Red Bull
Position: 6
Points: 168
Race wins: 2
Pole positions: 0 He had an erratic first half of the season with a number of crashes and incidents, but his results improved in the second half of the season. He had 2 race wins in the season.
2016
Team: Torro Rosso / Red Bull
Position: 5
Points: 204
Race wins: 1
Pole positions: 0 After the first 4 races of the season Max Verstappen was moved from Torro Rosso to Red Bull to replace Danill Kvyat.
2015
Team: Torro Rosso
Position: 12
Points: 49
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 In his first season he became the youngest person to start a grand prix and also the youngest person to score points. His best results of the season were 4th in Hungary and USA. Although raw, his talent and speed was clear.
