Max Verstappen

Can anyone stop the Max Verstappen and Red Bull juggernaut? The Dutchman goes into his home Dutch Grand Prix with a 93-point lead in the title race and ...

[Adrian Newey](/sport/formula-one/adrian-newey-red-bull-max-verstappen-christian-horner-b1008261.html), for the current state of play in both the drivers’ and constructors’ battles. [Spa proved a weekend to forget for Hamilton](/sport/formula-one/lewis-hamilton-belgian-grand-prix-crash-f1-news-b1021489.html). The Dutchman goes into his home [Dutch Grand Prix](/topic/dutch-grand-prix) with a 93-point lead in the title race and nearly twice as many wins as the rest of the field combined following his most dominant performance of 2022 at Spa last weekend.

Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton has admitted that Mercedes are “sometimes too optimistic” about their car's performance when heading into new.

And every time you get in the car there’s just more and more information that I’m able to pass into the team to try and get us on the right track for next year.” That’s really where I’m applying a lot of my time, is just communication with all the heads of different departments really to make sure that we don’t leave any stone unturned. But it becomes very clear straightaway where we stand and that we still often have the limitations that we do.

Lewis Hamilton says he was wrong to once call the Red Bull team “just a drinks company”, while praising its efforts to dominate the start of Formula 1's new ...

Formula 1 title rivals Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc both face a battle to recover from the rear of the grid after engine penalties. Nothing could deny Max Verstappen’s Spa surge as he charged to a ninth Formula 1 win of the season, while yet more bad luck and questionable calls mired Charles Leclerc. OPINION: Audi's arrival in Formula 1 for 2026 was confirmed on the eve of the Belgian Grand Prix.

Having beaten Hamilton to the drivers' championship in controversial circumstances last year, Verstappen has been dominant throughout 2022, and holds a 93-point ...

"Before the race or after the race, I said what I was thinking. "Obviously you should be aware that it should be broadcasted, but it's like if someone makes a hard tackle or something in football. If you say something to a Latin driver, everything is a little bit more fun.

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton gets ready for Sprint Qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix. Spielberg. Lewis Hamilton is concerned Red Bull are “already” on their way ...

“I’ve said in the past about the team, I didn’t mean it in a negative way,” he told Motorsport.com. Red Bull with 475 points are cruising in the Constructors’, 118 points up on Ferrari and a further 41 ahead of Mercedes. They’ve done a fantastic job.” “There are limitations with budget and wind tunnel and CFD time and we have to be very clear and precise in the direction we want to go and very efficient in our time.” “If your car is fast one year, it evolves into a faster car the next year, so the gap they have now will be very hard for anyone from third down to ever close in this cycle of car design,” Hamilton said. “They’ve experienced this year that their engine isn’t slower than others, that it was more they had a lot more drag in the previous years.

The Dutch driver had headed out on track to begin the first practice session at his home race, when he brought out the Virtual Safety Car after just 10 minutes.

“I don’t think so,” he said. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner told Sky Sports: “We lost drive whilst he [Max] took a shift from fourth to fifth. Verstappen was accelerating away out of the first corner when he appeared to suffer a catastrophic technical problem and he ground to a halt at the Hungenholtz corner.

Verstappen stopped out on track just 10 minutes into FP1 of his home race complaining of a gearbox problem.

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George Russell led a surprise Mercedes one-two in an intriguing first practice for the Dutch GP, as home favourite Max Verstappen's F1 momentum took a ...

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Smoke was seen pouring out of the back of Max Verstappen's Red Bull as he pulled up during FP1 at Zandvoort, leaving his mechanics with a repair job to do ...

The sight of the stricken Red Bull pulled over at the side of the track was a worrying one for the home fans, many of whom were stood up in silence. Verstappen jumped quickly onto team radio to inform his engineers that there was "something wrong with the gearbox". Smoke could be seen pouring out of the back of his car, and it wasn't long before the driver confirmed the source.

“This was done in accordance with Article 9.1.8 of the 2022 FIA Formula One Technical Regulations. "The forward change gear ratio pairs of the gearbox of car ...

Verstappen took a back-of-the-grid penalty at the Belgium Grand Prix after installing a range of new engine components. He could also win the crown in Japan if Verstappen wins the next four races and Perez finishes second. It read: “A seal was broken on the gearbox of car number 01, driver Max Verstappen, in order to change the main shaft locking insert. The issue comes just hours after the FIA investigated Verstappen’s car because Red Bull made some tweaks to his gearbox. After speaking to Red Bull mechanics, Kravitz confirmed the problem was a transmission issue. [Max Verstappen](/latest/max-verstappen) left his Dutch Grand Prix fans in “stunned silence” after his Red Bull stopped on track in a plume of smoke.