🇳🇱 Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen is a Generational-rated driver, the level the Racer Rating reserves for the very top of the scale, and he competes at the front of Formula 1's single-seater grid for Red Bull, the team he has driven for since his rookie season. Alongside his single-seater career he has begun racing endurance events for Winward Racing, sharing GT3 and Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport machinery in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and the Nürburgring 24 Hours. His FIA categorisation for that sportscar work is Platinum, the higher of the two full-professional grades.[1]

His Formula 1 record spans twelve seasons and 248 starts for Red Bull, yielding 71 wins and 134 podiums, and four consecutive drivers' championships from 2021 to 2024. Before that he won the FIA Formula 3 European title-contending season of 2014 with Van Amersfoort Racing, taking ten wins and sixteen podiums from twenty-four starts, with a single Formula 3 Macau start the same year. His most recent single-seater outings have come alongside a new sideline in GT endurance racing, three starts in the Langstrecken-Serie and one in the Nürburgring 24 Hours for Winward Racing.[2]

Across Formula 1 he races regularly against Lewis Hamilton, a nine-time champion across Formula 3 Euro Series, GP2 and Formula 1 who has made nearly four hundred grand prix starts, and the two are closely matched whenever they meet. Against Carlos Sainz, an elite professional with a Formula V8 3.5 title and close to 250 grands prix to his name, Verstappen usually finishes ahead. He has also beaten Lando Norris, a four-series champion including the 2025 Formula 1 title, and George Russell, champion in GB3, GP3 and Formula 2, on well over a hundred occasions apiece across their shared grand prix careers. Recent form includes a Baku weekend in which Russell held off Verstappen for the win after a late-race battle between the two.