Max Verstappen trusts that he is about to “steal information” by McLaren after a wonderful verification consultation for VRies Nyck.
After serving as a test driver for Mercedes, McLaren, Aston Martin and Williams – making his F1 grand prix debut with Williams at Monza in 2022 – De Vries secured his first full-time F1 seat with Red Bull’s second team in 2023, but he lasted just 10 races before being axed from the Red Bull programme with Daniel Ricciardo taking his seat.
However, just a year on from his brutal exit, De Vries was surprisingly back behind the wheel of an F1 car with McLaren, with images emerging on social media showing him manning McLaren’s 2022 challenger, the MCL36, at Circuit Paul Ricard, the former home of Formula 1’s French Grand Prix.
Lando Norris de McLaren emerged as a serious risk for Verstappen in the race of 2024 F1, Verstappen subsidized the British rate to ensure a quarter successive name with two spins to be left over, but McLaren controlled to eliminate Red Bull together to its builders. Bull, Red Bull falls to a Ferrari P3 end.
And with his Dutch colleagues Verstappen and de Vries in clever terms, Verstappen recently named de Vries in his dream line-up if he were to take the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Verstappen joked that the 29-year-old player in all of McLaren’s juicy main points.
“It will send me a full report of what is happening!” Verstappen joked at Racingnews365. com.
However, Verstappen did quickly make it abundantly clear that he is not about to actually receive any confidential McLaren data.
“No, of course not,” he stressed. “We always keep it very professional. That’s his job.
“I’m not here to see the Scouse Tor Borrowed information. I don’t need to put him in that position anyway. “
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However, Verstappen had its suspicions in F1 2024 that an opponent had been bending the rules, to the detriment of Red Bull.
The Flexi-Wing saga returned to its new episode last season, with the FIA body director that presented a technical directive at the Belgian Grand Prix for the conviction that the groups had exploited this gray area, while the technical regulations They have changed since F1 2025 to a repetition of the rear wing solution “McLaren”.
“Things happened in the background that meant we had no chance at all in certain races. I know that for sure, but no one will ever admit that,” Verstappen told Dutch publication De Telegraaf.
Having matched Sebastian Vettel’s achievement of winning four Drivers’ titles in a row as a Red Bull driver, Verstappen goes into F1 2025 looking to set a new benchmark for Red Bull success by becoming a five-time World Champion.
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