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

Is Max Verstappen the greatest F1 driver of all time? It is a question which can legitimately be asked in the wake of his fourth consecutive world title, which he delivered beneath the blinking neon lights of Sin City here on Saturday night.

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.

Verstappen responded with the greatest display of his F1 career. In rainy conditions, he charged through to victory, taking the lead at the same moment Norris slid down the order after a mistake at Turn 1. A symbolic moment of the diverging paths of their title aspirations.

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,

Lando Norris has refuted Max Verstappen’s claim he would’ve won the title “even earlier” in the McLaren, the Briton adamant Red Bull’s early-season advantage could not be overcome. Verstappen and Red Bull picked up where they left off last year with an emphatic 22-second victory at this year’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix where he led home a Red Bull 1-2.