Sunday marks Max Verstappen’s 21st birthday and he has laid out his target over the next nine years, based on the performance of Red Bull.
In his third year with the Milton Keynes outfit, it has been a patient waiting game for opportunities for Max who burst onto the scene winning his first race with the team in Spain in 2016 but has only won three more times since.
While his talent is largely undoubted, it is his temperament that many have questioned as proven by the spate of incidents at the start of this year, even so, his goals are clear.
“Hopefully in two years’ time we [Red Bull] will have the whole package together,” he told Sky Sports when asked what he hopes to achieve by 30.
“Then I’ll be more or less 23, so then we have another six, seven years to win championships. So hopefully around four I hope, that would be nice.”
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One man who has been vocal in his admiration for Verstappen is Lewis Hamilton, who believes he will “definitely” become world champion and this time last year admitted he would have to up his own game to keep up with the Dutchman.
“We’ve seen the way he drives and he’s got great potential as a driver. He’s in a great team and he’s in the perfect place to continue growing,” the Briton added.
In response, Max said: “It’s always good and always nice, but at the end of the day I always focus on myself.
“It’s, of course, nice for other people to say it. Lewis has always been really nice to me, he’s a cool guy and he deserves where he is at the moment in his career.
“He’s a very talented driver first of all, but he also works hard for it to achieve the results.”
