Max Verstappen says Red Bull ready for new era

Max Verstappen has stated that Red Bull is acceptable for a caller rules cycle, adjacent though the squad has a wholly caller powerfulness portion task this play and a precocious improvement car during 2025. The squad from Milton Keynes enters a twelvemonth afloat of archetypal steps; this is the archetypal play with Laurent Mekies astatine the helm and the archetypal without Helmut Marko's nonstop involvement.

Also, 2026 is the debut twelvemonth for Red Bull's powerfulness portion successful practice with Ford, which is returning to Formula 1 for the archetypal clip since 2005, erstwhile it sold the erstwhile programme to the Austrian company. Verstappen calmed galore doubts erstwhile helium committed to staying with the team, contempt a summertime afloat of speculation astir talks with Mercedes. The talented Isack Hadjar from Racing Bulls joined the team, completing the operator line-up.

The four-time champion had a beardown decorativeness past season; helium overturned a 104-point shortage from August and ended up losing the rubric by conscionable 2 points. His instrumentality to the rubric combat besides helped successful the improvement of the RB21 car, which was much competitory than McLaren's MCL39 connected galore tracks.

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New rules and challenges: Max believes successful his team

Despite parallel enactment connected the 2025 car and improvement for 2026 with the added unit of the caller rules, Verstappen believes the squad and the task are successful the close place. "I mean, you cognize that earlier you spell into the season, right? So it's not a shock," helium told Bloomberg of the caller rules.

"The squad is ready; this is besides a caller challenge. I person enjoyed the cars for the past 3 years, but sometimes a small alteration doesn't hurt." He added: "Yeah, it tin wholly upset the grid. You don't know. We'll spot however it goes."

Verstappen is intelligibly focused connected continuing his combat for the rubric and the improvement of the car, with afloat attraction connected the squad and the challenges of the caller season.

Next play could bring a batch of uncertainty but reddish bull leaders are hoping for occurrence successful 2026.