Max Verstappen urges Red Bull to make major change for 2025 season that hasn’t been seen in the modern era

Verstappen is aiming for a fifth consecutive Drivers’ Championship in 2025.

Max Verstappen has urged Red Bull to make an unprecedented change for 2025 that has not been seen in their 20-year history.

Verstappen won his fourth consecutive Drivers’ Championship in 2024, becoming only the fifth driver to achieve the feat after Juan Manuel Fangio, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton.

Red Bull started strongly, with Verstappen winning seven of the first 10 races. His team-mate Sergio Perez, meanwhile, secured four podiums in the opening six races.

But Perez’s form deserted him completely in the second half of the season, while McLaren and Ferrari – and occasionally Mercedes – began to arrive at Grands Prix with a quicker car than the Red Bull.

Verstappen still scored more points than any other driver in the last 14 races of this season, but would only win twice more and Perez’s lack of points meant that Red Bull finished in third place in the Constructors’ Championship behind Ferrari and winners McLaren.

Following the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Red Bull announced that Perez would leave the team, with Liam Lawson earning a promotion from RB for the 2025 season.

The campaign is expected to be relatively similar to 2024 in terms of car performance, with the major regulation changes arriving for 2026 to potentially shake up the field.

Speaking in an interview with Nicola Hume for Red Bull’s official YouTube channel, Verstappen has, however, urged Red Bull to make a key change to the car – although it doesn’t have anything to do with performance.

He said: “I know when the car is quick enough, I’ll do the rest, but I just hope we’re competitive and that we’re back up there again.

“Probably when I come back to the factory for the first time [I’ll see the new car].