Max Verstappen

Nationality: Belgium / Holland
Date of Birth: 30 September 1997
Drivers championships: 2021, 2022, 2023
Grand Prix victories: 54
Races started: 185
Pole positions: 32
Teams: Red Bull 2016 - Present, Toro Rosso 2015 - 2016
Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen career

Max Verstappen is the son of Jos Verstappen and came through carting and one season in Formula 3. He has comparatively little race experience. 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 Barccelona 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.

Previous seasons

2024

Team Red Bull
Position
Points
Race wins
Pole positions

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 nearset rival was team mate Sergio Perez who was nearly 300 points behind him.

2022

Team Red Bull
Position 1
Points 454
Race wins 15
Max Verstappen was the dominant driver this seson and comfortably won the drivers championship having won a record 15 races.

2021

Team Red Bull
Points 395.5
Position 1
Race wins 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 posions than Lewis Hamilton

2020

Team Red Bull
Points 214
Position 3
Race wins 2

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
Points 278
Position 3
Race wins 0

Max Verstappen had a Honda engine this year which took him agian to third in the championship behind the two Mercedes with three racewins and 9 podium finishes.

2018

Team Red Bull
Points 249
Position 4
Race wins 2
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
Points 168
Position 6
Race wins 2
He had an erractic firat half of the season with a number oncrashes 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
Points 204
Position 5
Race wins 1

After the first 4 races of the season Max Verstappen was moved from Torro Rosso to Red Byll to replace Danill Kvyat.

2015

Team Torro Rosso
Points 49
Position 12
Race wins 0
In his first season he became the yougest person to start a grnad 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.