All rights reserved. A true wheel-to-wheel racer, another stunning drive in Brazil from the back of the pack to the podium on a treacherous wet track kept the plaudits coming. Verstappen and Sainz will fight it out to show Red Bull which of them is their next world champion, and the Dutchman will be under immediate pressure to succeed, such is the reputation that has been created around him. Raikkonen's last win was back in 2013 and didn't score a win since his comeback to Ferrar. Then, Verstappen overtook Valtteri Bottas but picked up a puncture after a slight touch and had to pit. Stoddart tells that at the age of five Max already beat his father on the simulator. Verstappen, who passed Hamilton with four laps to go only to have to hand back the lead for going off the track, finished a mere 0.74 seconds behind after starting on pole position. The whole season Verstappen was growing by the minute and made the races a lot more entertaining. Verstappen managed his car well and won the race in front of Lewis Hamilton. The Guardian profiled Verstappen early in his racing career. Despite moving out of Dadâs house to live in Monaco, Verstappen remains close to his family, and though heâs not afraid to speak his mind, he can still be surprisingly shy.Â. Also, the win slipped out of his hands in Brazil after Esteban Ocon, a backmarker, tried to overtake him and collided with his Red Bull, which forced him to lose the race at the hands of Lewis Hamilton. formula one Formula One: Lewis Hamilton resists Max Verstappen’s challenge to win thrilling Bahrain GP The defending seven-time champion … The current season has been Verstappen's best in Formula 1. Verstappen was just 15 years of age at that point and would go on to join Toro Rosso in 2014 before making his debut the following year. Bahrain GP steward.. Mar.31 - Lewis Hamilton may have won in Bahrain, but his Mercedes team is worried the situation could be different once the racing resumes next month at Imola. Prior to his F1 debut in 1994, he was also the German Formula Three champion and Masters of Formula Three winner in 1993. The news came in as a pressure-release on the team and the driver, as the 2021 market was expected to produce a big shake-up in Formula 1. Max Verstappen (prononcé en néerlandais : [mɑks vɛrˈstɑpə(n)]), né le 30 septembre 1997 à Hasselt, est un pilote automobile belgo-néerlandais courant sous licence néerlandaise. The final stages of the race he was under severe pressure by Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen. At 17 years and 166 days, Max became the youngest driver to compete in F1 with the Toro Rosso team. The pair both made their debuts for Toro Rosso in 2015,.. Go behind the scenes for exclusive access to the Red Bull Racing Team as we follow Max Verstappen and Checo Pérez from Testing to a thrilling opening race of the season in.. Apr.12 - Dr Helmut Marko has rubbished rumours that Red Bull is set to debut a new and "mysterious" suspension system this weekend at Imola. This season and probably every other season he races, Verstappen will be scrutinised more than most. Max Verstappen wins his first race for Red Bull at Catalunya circuit the 2016 Spanish GP. Lewis Hamilton beat Max Verstappen to win the most thrilling season-opening race of recent memory - and declared "if there are many more like that, I will be grey by the end of the year". The team did develop their car remarkably well during the season and at the end of the season they even had a quicker car than Ferrari. Max Verstappen's win at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix made him the youngest winner in Formula 1 History, he recounts all of his emotions on the day and the weekend itself. After three races out of the podium positions, he finished third in the 2019 US Grand Prix at Austin. The baby-faced Dutchman with the heart of a lion took the Toro Rosso – and then the Red Bull – by the horns with his instinctive racing style. In 2018, Verstappen started the year with difficulties, both from the car and with some mistakes from himself. "This is complete nonsense," said the.. Apr.9 - A trio of Formula 1 personalities say the jury is out on the true greatness of seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton. Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas & Kimi Raikkonen winners Mexico GP F1/2017. Max Verstappen was absolutely seething after being forced to hand the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix to Lewis Hamilton.. Verstappen, who passed Hamilton with four laps to … Both Mercedes drivers collided into each other after 3 corners and Max who qualified 4th on the grid could race to the lead. Verstappen won at Germany in a tricky race where mistakes were the easier thing to do, but he kept his calm even after a spin and took his seventh Grand Prix win. Race winner Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium as second-placed Charles Leclerc looks dejected in Austria (2019). But the mistakes that initially marred his potential have given way to maturity, while the bravado and energy that make him a blockbuster talent have remained â and the victories have kept on coming. Red Bull won. On the 7th of January of 2020, Red Bull announced a three-year contract extension which would keep Verstappen with the team until the end of the 2023 season. It was his ninth F1 victory. Arriving as Formula 1âs youngest ever competitor at just 17 years old, Verstappen pushed his car, his rivals and the sportâs record books to the limit. Former F1 driver Jos' extreme commitment to his son's meteoric rise in the sport is.. Apr.6 - His son may not have won in Bahrain, but Jos Verstappen is confident Red Bull will have a potentially race-winning car at every race in 2021. "It was awfully.. Test your F1 knowledge in our FREE 2021 F1 Poule and see who knows best! The afternoon running in Imola … Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen are seemingly the odd couple of the Formula One grid but maybe that’s why it works. ... Bottas reeled Verstappen in before that stop, but that is also due to tyre age differences. However, his son enjoys a greater reputation already. "There were people who put money on Max Verstappen winning that race, but Lewis stopped the rot and that was an exceptional performance … Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen (born 4 March 1972) is a Dutch former racing driver.After his F1 career Jos Verstappen has won races in A1 Grand Prix and Le Mans Series LMP2 races (winning the 24 hours of Le Mans LMP2 class in 2008). After the incidents, he finished sixth in the race. In 2019, Verstappen has scored 181 points, which is his best tally for any first half of a campaign. The day he turned 18, Verstappen passed his driving test on his first try and happily tweeted “Legal to drive, born to race #driverlicense.” His first race for Red Bull turned out into a fairytale. The son of former F1 driver Jos Verstappen and super-quick karting Mum Sophie Kumpen, racing runs through his genes. 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In the 2019 Mexican Grand Prix, Verstappen did the two fastest laps of Q3 but ignored a yellow flag at the end of his second run and suffered a three-place grid penalty. Verstappen is no stranger to pressure in Formula 1 – after all, he had to face the daunting task of joining the grid at only 17 years of age. Surely there was always going to be one inevitable outcome when the chequered flag flew during the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix? Sometimes he was the only driver who passed other drivers and made the show on his own. But what a decision is has proven to be so far. In 2016 Max moved just before the Spanish GP from Toro Rosso to Red Bull after Daniil Kvyat crashed for the 2nd time that season. Free and simple registration required to view this content, © 2003-2021 Formula One World Championship Limited. After one season, he looks every bit as skilled as the Brazil legend. Former Minardi team boss Paul Stoddart tells about the time Jos Verstappen drove for his team, and regularly took Max Verstappen to events. The baby-faced Dutchman with the heart of a lion took the Toro Rosso â and then the Red Bull â by the horns with his instinctive racing style.Â. The Dutchman is said to be a once-in-a-lifetime driver, but it is still highly ambitious and a massive risk to thrust him into the sport’s limelight at such a tender age. His daring overtakes are already the stuff of legend, and it is already a question of when, not, he will be a world champion. Red Bull driver Max Verstappen set the fastest time in first practice for the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix ahead of Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas, as Formula 1's new season commenced. When he joined Formula 1 as a 17-year-old, he wasn’t even legally able to drive a car because he had not yet received his license due to his age.. Hamilton has … Verstappen fought with Lewis Hamilton for the lead and had to overtake the British champion twice in the race to take his eighth F1 victory. Ever since breaking into … The Dutchman showed his outstanding racing skills and was able to stay in front of the faster Ferrari to win his first-ever Grand Prix at the age of 18! He made up the teams bad tyres choice by passing 13 cars in the last 13 laps of the race to finish on the podium. The very wet and rainy race in Brazil was his best race that season. F1âs youngest points scorer soon became its youngest race winner â at the age of 18 years and 228 days â with an opportunistic but controlled drive on debut for Red Bull in Barcelona 2016. Red Bull stunned the world of sport when they announced that they had signed 17-year-old Max Verstappen to their Toro Rosso team for 2015. He drove completely other racing lines than the other drivers and engraved his name in F1. Verstappenâs no-holds-barred attitude and hard defending have sometimes landed him in hot water with his peers and paymasters. Red Bull says he’s as good as Ayrton Senna, and after being hired at such a young age. The 2018 RB14 looked to be a lot quicker and reliable right from the start. Starting with Toro Rosso at the age of 17 he was the youngest F1 driver in history. Pierre Gasly will start in fifth. Button raced against Max’s father, Jos, who carried the Dutch flag admirably for years. At Hungary, Max took the first Pole Position of his career and had a strong performance on Sunday. Ever since Max Verstappen burst into Formula One in 2015, he has been hailed as a future world champion. However, after his FP3 crash at Monaco, which did not allow him to participate in qualifying, Verstappen improved a lot and finished the year strongly with two victories —at Austria and Mexico— and a total of 11 podiums. The expectations for the next generationâs leading light are sky high â but with Verstappen thereâs a feeling that the skyâs the limit. Mayrton 29th March 2021, 18:13. Verstappen, complaining about differential problems, came in and took mediums as Hamilton swept into the lead for the first time. By lap 23, Hamilton’s lead was 3.8 seconds on the Red Bull man, but it was soon reduced to one. At the start of the race, he fought with Lewis Hamilton for third place but both went into the grass and lost places. With second in the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Verstappen rounded his best year in Formula 1 by sealing third place in the WDC with his career-high of 278 points. He started the campaign with a podium at Australia, which was Honda's —Red Bull's new engine supplier— first since the 2008 British Grand Prix. Verstappen was solid in the 2020 F1 season, constantly scoring podiums in usually the second-best car of the grid behind the Mercedes. Max Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton to pole position for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix following an exhilarating qualifying session.. Red Bull's Verstappen delivered a … Max Verstappen dominated the entire season-opening weekend in Bahrain until the.. Apr.7 - Max Verstappen's father is now working on delivering another young driver to Formula 1. In Austria, he gave Honda their first victory since the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix with a stunning display of overtaking in the closing laps and a battle with Charles Leclerc for the win. Max Verstappen and Red Bull ticked every pre-season performance box. Verstappen is, obviously, the sport’s youngest ever driver but it has benefited him that his team-mate is 21-year-old Carlos Sainz, another youngster. However, his display in 2014's Formula 3 championship caught the eye of all the major teams. It was Verstappen, though, who joined the grid with far more hype considering he debuted at only 17 years of age. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace - Pool/Getty Images) // Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool // SI202012110387 // Usage for editorial use only //. The British driver could become clearly the most.. Apr.7 - Dr Helmut Marko is expecting Red Bull and Mercedes to be "on an equal footing" in 2021. 10 wins, 16 podiums and seven poles saw him finish third in the championship, and so began a race to sign him. Indeed, Max Verstappen.. Apr.1 - Dr Helmut Marko does not think Max Verstappen made a mistake by letting Lewis Hamilton re-pass him for the lead and victory in Bahrain last weekend. The Dutch driver did sign a new contract in 2017 to stay for another 2 season at Red Bull Racing, while other top teams also would like to have the hugely talented driver. He gave another show at Silverstone in the following race, but his day did not have the deserved result after Vettel crashed into his car when battling for a podium spot. SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — World champion Lewis Hamilton just managed to hold off Max Verstappen to win the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix and clinch the 96th Formula One win of his career on Sunday. Button raced against Max’s father, Jos, who carried the Dutch flag admirably for years.However, his son enjoys a greater reputation already. Red Bull recently confirmed that, despite signing a contract early last year with.. Apr.14 - Going wheel to wheel with Max Verstappen gave Carlos Sainz the "confidence" to know that he belonged in Formula 1. They have as always the best chassis Their big Achilles heel is the Renault power unit, that didn't have the party mode, power and reliability of the Mercedes power unit. Verstappen was fearless, brave and natural as he made quite a statement in his first season. Like many drivers in this elite sport, Max's father Jos Verstappen was a former F1 driver too. Nic Savage and Andrew McMurtry news.com.au April 17, 2021 6:05am Lewis Hamilton's quest for a record eighth Formula 1 world championship is off to a winning start. He’s Max by name, and max by nature. Max Verstappen took pole and will start ahead of Lewis Hamilton, after he earned his fourth career pole to deny Hamilton his 99th, edging out the world champion by .39 seconds on his final attempt. On the 1st of September of 2019, his streak failed to continue due to a racing incident with Kimi Raikkonen in the first lap of the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix, he went on to finish eighth at Monza, where he suffered grid penalties for exceeding PU elements. For the rest of the season, Verstappen ran into some bad luck, but he managed to fight for P2 in the World Championship with Valtteri Bottas until the late stages of the year. A couple of weeks later, Verstappen took the second Pole Position of his career at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix and won the race with a great performance. Verstappen did won 2 races and a total of 4 podiums in 2017, but bad reliability and collisions with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen limited his performance to a 6th place in the 2017 drivers championship just behind his team mate Daniel Ricciardo. There was much talk around Max Verstappen when he arrived on the F1 scene in 2015. He won the 2020 70t Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone, where tyres were the main issue and the Red Bull was the best car on that aspect. To put it into context, Verstappen is ten years younger than Sebastian Vettel, and he was only two when Jenson Button made his debut. Still, he finished third in the standings behind the two Mercedes and added his 10th F1 victory to his resume with a dominant drive at the 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from Pole Position. Arriving as Formula 1’s youngest ever competitor at just 17 years old, Verstappen pushed his car, his rivals and the sport’s record books to the limit. However, Hamilton overtook him after a good strategy for Mercedes paid off with four laps to go. He continued to have strong outings and achieved another podium in Spain. Max Verstappen was dealt a blow in his bid to win Sunday's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix after he broke down in practice. Also, he has five podiums and has finished every race inside the top five, a streak that extends to the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix —21 races—. During the 2019 Singapore Grand Prix, at a circuit that was good for the RB15 characteristics, he started fourth and finished third. 2001-2021 © F1-Fansite.com. Apr.17 - Max Verstappen says he sees "no reason" to consider moving to another Formula 1 team. Tomorrow, 22-year-old Mick Schumacher will start the race at exactly the same age his … ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 11: Max Verstappen of the Netherlands driving the (33) Aston Martin Red Bull Racing RB16 on track during practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi at Yas Marina Circuit on December 11, 2020 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Max Verstappen has hailed Lewis Hamilton as one of Formula One's greatest ever drivers as he prepares to go toe-to-toe with the Brit for this year's world championship. In 2017 expectations were high after Verstappens outstanding performance in the last races of 2016. But compared to the Ferrari SF70H and Mercedes W08 the RB13 wasn't quick enough right from the start of the season. Bottas was .59 behind Verstappen in third, while Leclerc qualified in an encouraging fourth. Ferrari and Mercedes were interested and will rue missing out. Us Grand Prix, at a circuit that was good for the next generationâs leading light are sky â. 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