Alisha Palmowski has opened up on what it has been like to receive guidance from Max Verstappen, revealing the four-time world champion’s genuine willingness to help has stood out most during her time around Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 2026 F1 Academy champion wrapped up her title in Austin with a round to spare, backing up a race win with an eighth-to-second recovery drive in the reverse-grid encounter at the Circuit of the Americas.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Since then, Palmowski has spoken about the access she has had to Verstappen within Red Bull’s environment, describing how she has used the opportunity to study his approach up close.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Speaking to talkSPORT, Palmowski explained what she admires most about the Dutchman’s mentality on track.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think it’s a really mentally challenging sport, more than a lot of people realise, and I think that’s what I admire most about Max,” she said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“You know, his mentality, his aggression and his never-give-up attitude. I think anything can happen in a race, but Max is always able to extract 110% out of the car, and that’s something that I really admire.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“And I’m not comparing myself to Max in the sense that I’m saying I’m on his level, but I definitely admire and look up to him, and wish that one day I’ll be anywhere near him.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tKey takeaway from Max Verstappen interactions<\/p>\n
Asked directly about receiving advice from Verstappen, Palmowski was in no doubt about the value of the experience.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It’s incredible, honestly,” she said. “He is so open and welcoming that if I have any concern or question, he’s really hands-on and just really genuinely wants to help.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think the biggest thing that I’ve learned through this opportunity of having access to such a driver is actually just standing back and observing him: how he interacts with his engineers, the feedback he gives, being able to wear the radio headset throughout a qualifying session or a grand prix, listening to what he finds important, what isn’t important, and just the way he handles himself across a race weekend and his approach. I think that’s something that I’ve learned a lot from.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Palmowski’s next step up the single-seater ladder has yet to be officially confirmed by Red Bull or F1 Academy.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alisha Palmowski has opened up on what it has been like to receive guidance from Max Verstappen, revealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-961037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961037","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=961037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}