Max Verstappen Quotes

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

“The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.”

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

“When I was very little, my dad had his own go-kart team as well while he was still in F1, so I always joined, riding through the paddock on my bicycle.”

“My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box. Some people say, "Feel your way into it; build it up." No. My dad would say, "Straight away, you have to be there."

“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 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 perform.”

“Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.”

“If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?”

“When you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect.”

“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.”

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

“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 like I am arrogant and not listening to the team, but it is not like that.”

“I say what I think, and if somebody attacks me unfairly, I definitely tell them.”

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

“I'm normally not really an angry person. Maybe some other people have a different opinion.”

“I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.”

“People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It's the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.”

“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.”

“I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but also negative ones, and it is much more important not to read it so you just don't know.”

“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.”

“Many people ask, "What do you need mentally to succeed in F1?" I say, "What do you mean mentally?"

“If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, "Am I good enough?", maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.”

“To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.”

“Maybe I can drive until I'm 36 or 37. 40.”