Max Verstappen “won’t be” at Red Bull at the start of the F1 2026 season amid persistent rumours of a move to Mercedes. That is the opinion of former Red Bull driver Robert Doornbos, who believes it will “be difficult” for the team to convince the newly crowned four-time World Champion to stay beyond next season.

His fourth title was hard-won. As title defenses go, 2025 is already shaping up to be an even greater test for Max Verstappen.

If Kumpen had been successful in her bid to reach F1, she would have joined an exclusive club. Only two female drivers - Maria Teresa de Filippis and Lella Lombardi - have started Grand Prix events, with the latter the only one to score points (half a point at the 1975 Spanish GP).

Four-time world champion Max Verstappen feels he would have won this years F1 title much earlier if he was in a McLaren; watch the Qatar GP Sprint weekend live on Sky Sports F1 from Friday, with the Sprint at 2pm on Saturday,

Mercedes’ George Russell took victory in the 2024 Las Vegas GP from pole, but it was Max Verstappen who could celebrate winning the drivers' title in Nevada

Max Verstappen, after clinching his fourth consecutive Formula 1 World Championship, made a bold statement, suggesting that he could have secured the title even sooner if he had been driving for McLaren or Ferrari.

"attachment_2481154" align="alignnone" width="1993"] Dutch driver Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing during free practice session one for the Formula One Las Vegas Gran

Lando Norris has suggested that Max Verstappen would not have won the world championship if faced with the same circumstances that the British star had been handed. The pair, while friends off-track,