🇳🇱 Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen is a generational driver, rated 8,724 and currently ranked third among active drivers in this index. He races Formula 1, a single-seater, single-class championship contested solo, for Red Bull, and has also begun competing in GT endurance racing for Winward Racing, sharing cars in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie's Cup 3 class, which runs the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport, and its SP9 and SP9 Pro classes, both GT3 machinery. His FIA categorisation, Platinum, is the endurance grading system's top rung and applies to that side of his racing rather than to his standing in Formula 1.[1]

The bulk of his record is in Formula 1, where he has taken four consecutive drivers' championships with Red Bull, from 2021 through 2024, across more than two hundred starts and over seventy wins. Before that he came up through FIA Formula 3 European with Van Amersfoort Racing, winning ten of twenty-four starts, with a single outing at Formula 3 Macau for the same team, and his earliest indexed result is a 2012 SKUSA SuperNationals karting start. His endurance program is recent and still small: three Langstrecken-Serie starts from 2025 into 2026 and a single Nürburgring 24 Hours entry in 2026, both for Winward Racing.[2]

In Formula 1 he races regularly against Lewis Hamilton, a generational driver and world champion in 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 among other titles, and the two are closely matched across their many meetings. Against Carlos Sainz, an elite professional and 2014 Formula V8 3.5 champion, he usually finishes ahead. He has also repeatedly finished ahead of Lando Norris and George Russell, both generational drivers with junior titles in Formula 3, Formula 2, GP3 and karting-adjacent categories before reaching Formula 1, each beaten well over a hundred times across their shared grands prix. Coverage of the 2026 season has referred to his Zandvoort weekend as his last home Dutch Grand Prix for Red Bull.