Max Verstappen thinks that the knowledge that Red Bull has acquired in a hard -played Formula One season could help him in his quest to win a fifth world championship of successive pilots. The Dutchman won his fourth consecutive title in Las Vegas in November, becoming the fifth pilot in the history of Formula 1 to achieve this feat. If it was a question of keeping his crown in 2025, – the season of the 75th anniversary of Formula One – Verstappen would join an even more exclusive club by drawing the level with the record of Michael Schumacher of five championships in a row.
While Verstappen finally won the 63 -point title 2024 of Lando Norris, it was the McLaren team of Norris who deprived Red Bull with a hat of the manufacturers’ championships.
“If we are competitive as a team, I am sure that we can win it again,” Vistappen told journalists during the launch of the Formula 1,2025 season at the London O2 Arena on Tuesday.
“We are very experienced and I think we have shown that last year was a little more difficult for us, we always maximize our results. And that is, I think, the great strength of the team.”
Verstappen said that with pre-season tests in Bahreïn still take place before the opening of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 16, it was difficult to assess the prospects of Red Bull.
“I don’t know where we’re right now,” he said. “I think nobody knows it. And in a few weeks, we will know.”
The 27 -year -old Dutchman added: “I did not drive my car, no one saw the other cars, so you can speculate, but it’s just a waste of energy to think about it. It’s good for sport if it’s exciting, but I don’t know at the moment.”
Last month, the British Daily Mail said that Aston Martin was ready to make a daring offer of 1 billion pounds ($ 1.25 billion) to attract Verstappen to a team that finished fifth – and a colossal of 495 points at the drift of Red Bull – last year.
The new director of the Aston Martin team, Andy Cowell, bypass speculation on Tuesday saying that the team had the chance to have the former world champion Fernando Alonso and launches Stroll, the son of the Lawrence Stroll team, on “long -term contracts”.
“The key work for this team is to create a fast racing car and we did not create this for them (drivers) last year and they have a lot of media pressure because of this,” said Cowell.
“The pressure should come in our direction, we have the job to create a fast racing car and I am absolutely certain that they will both deliver.”
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