Unlike most other teams, Red Bull decided that the aforementioned work entailed further effort on its 2025 challenger, which paved the way for this unlikely title bid, with the team adamant it won’t hamper its chances for F1’s new technical era in 2026 – if anything it should prove beneficial, according to Verstappen.

For the first time since 2010, the Formula 1 drivers' championship comes down to three drivers at the season finale. Here's how each one could win it.

The finale of the 2025 season brings F1 back to Abu Dhabi with Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen in a three-way battle to win the title.

Verstappen would have no qualms about McLaren resorting to team orders to win the drivers' title in Formula 1's 2025 season finale in Abu Dhabi

The last time Verstappen was in a proper world championship battle was 2021, against Hamilton. Sure, in 2022, it looked like Ferrari and Charles Leclerc could challenge at the start of the season, but the Red Bull driver pulled away, later winning the title in October after a rain-soaked Japanese GP.

Max Verstappen is one of the biggest names in Formula 1, holding the record for the most consecutive wins in one season. He became F1's youngest driver in 2015, when he made his debut at just 17 years old at the Australian Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen has revealed that he might be ready to walk out of Formula One next year rather than chase a record number of world titles.

Max Verstappen could become only the second driver after Michael Schumacher to win five Formula One titles in a row this weekend but the Red Bull driver was relaxed about it on Thursday.

Antonelli made a mistake in the Qatar race that resulted in online abuse of the young Mercedes driver. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.