Max Verstappen has made his stance clear ahead of the 2025 F1 season, as the reigning world champion risks a race ban.

Currently with eight points on his FIA superlicence, Max Verstappen must avoid picking up four more across the first half of the 2025 F1 season - or he faces a race ban

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Red Bull expects Liam Lawson to closely match Max Verstappen's performance within three-tenths of a second as he joins the senior team in 2025, replacing Sergio Perez.

Max Verstappen has named Daniel Ricciardo as his best-ever F1 team-mate, insisting that he ‘learned the most’ from the eight-time Grand Prix winner. The two stars spent the better part of three seasons together between 2016 and 2018.

Speaking exclusively to Autosport, Christian Horner explains why he never doubted Max Verstappen's commitment to Red Bull

Max Verstappen has said the name of the driver in the other Red Bull cockpit is far less important than the car itself as he looks to retain the Drivers’ title. The Dutchman won his fourth championship in 2024 and did so by dragging an underperforming RB20 to the front – but he has warned that fixing the car is the biggest challenge the Milton Keynes team face.