Max Verstappen has delivered a clear message that there remains a “lot to learn” in 2025 after Red Bull’s struggles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dutchman is 97 points adrift of championship leader Oscar Piastri, and is effectively out of the title fight unless the most remarkable comeback occurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A fifth consecutive F1 drivers’ title has been ruled out by Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko, with him accepting it is not Verstappen’s year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Verstappen is third in the standings but has failed to consistently challenge McLaren in the races, despite his best efforts to get amongst Piastri and Lando Norris in qualifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s race pace has been a major weakness, resulting in a frustration season so far for the reigning world champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, he remains confident that much can be gained from the current campaign, before next year’s new power unit regulations are introduced.<\/p>\n
“We always want to be better, and actually that was the same when we were winning,” Verstappen told F1.com. “Now we’re not winning that much.<\/p>\n
“We just try to focus on understanding the car a bit better, where we can find our time, because of course next year there’s new regulations, but I think there’s still a lot to learn also this year.”<\/p>\n
Whilst Red Bull finds itself fourth in the constructors’ standings, Verstappen is the only non-Red Bull driver to have won multiple races \u2013 the 27-year-old was victorious in Japan and Imola.<\/p>\n
Winning races is all Verstappen has known in recent seasons, although he still remembers the start of his F1 career where that was not the case.<\/p>\n
“I had many years before that where I didn’t have a winning car, so that’s Formula 1, and you know that, so it’s not a very hard thing to do [compartmentalise and deal with],” he added.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has delivered a clear message that there remains a “lot to learn” in 2025 after Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-79454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}