Max Verstappen Quotes

I’ve raced at the Hungaroring in Formula 3, and it’s a bit of a Mickey Mouse track.

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

You have to be patient: trust the team, that they can deliver a good job.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

That’s what I enjoy, always driving on the limit of what you can do.

Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course.

The biggest critic I have in my life is my dad, so everything else is just a breeze; it doesn’t really matter to me.

I get really tired of all the comments saying I should change my approach.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

Preparation for Monaco is a little different: you definitely build up a little bit slower throughout the weekend and pace yourself. It’s important to find the limit carefully.

I think, in general, not only in Formula One but just in a lot of sports, when younger people come in and they do well, there’s always a bit of talk going on. I think that’s pretty normal.

As a driver, it is important to focus on yourself and believe in yourself, and there shouldn’t be a reason why, when you are in F1 and there is more attention, you change your approach.

It is not because others tell me I have to change my driving style that I will change.

I think it’s always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

If you are not allowed to defend, what’s racing about, then?

My career is more important than girls.

The world championship is what I am here for.

I have good people around me, so I always have advice. A lot of people can talk to me, but it’s me, of course, who still has to take that to the track and to perform.

I have to say it was a very good start, a very good first season. I enjoyed it a lot, scored good points and gained a lot of experience.

You always have to believe in yourself, and I had that from karting.

I grew up going to race rings, and I really enjoyed it.

To be honest, it doesn’t matter who is next to me in whatever team.

I focus on myself, but all these stupid comments you read on social media and journalists, it’s really stupid.

I don’t need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

I think you can improve on everything; you’re never perfect.

We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!

I was never Mad Max. I was just Max who was trying to get the best result for the team.

Of course there will be difficult times, and there will be more in the future, but I know what I have to do in the car.

The thing is, all the time I press my radio button, it is broadcast, and sometimes it sounds a bit arrogant – especially the ‘I’m not here to finish fourth‘ – and that is just what comes up in my mind.

I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.

Sometimes I watch a football match, and I think I know better, but at the end of the day, we don’t. So I think people need to appreciate more what we are trying to achieve in the car.

My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that’s my dream, and it doesn’t matter with which team it is.

I am not there to finish fourth at the end of the day. I am there to win as a racer, but on the radio, it sounds I am arrogant and not listening to the team, but it is not like that.

My first memory of motor racing – I think it was just attending a go kart race.

Sometimes it’s better to come through from, say, last to eighth than staying eighth, and you’ve qualified eighth!

It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say it to my face. That’s very weak I find.

As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, ‘Am I good enough?’ – maybe there is a reason you’re thinking that.

For me, it doesn’t matter if you are fighting a world champion or not.

As a driver, I will always be the same guy.

If you haven‘t really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn in Formula One, and a lot more people are watching.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

I just want to do the best I can every time.

The only place that matters is first.