Max Verstappen shrugged off the importance of his 2025 F1 marketing campaign, saying he “gained’t actually care” in regards to the season when he’s older, regardless of claiming one other standout pole in Azerbaijan.
Verstappen capitalised on troublesome situations to take his first profession pole place in Baku.
Remarkably, it’s one of many few tracks Verstappen hasn’t taken pole at.
That is primarily because of Charles Leclerc’s exceptional report in Azerbaijan over time, taking 4 consecutive pole positions.
Like for lots of this season, Purple Bull discovered efficiency in a single day between follow and qualifying.
With the McLarens and Ferraris making errors, Verstappen produced a world champion-level efficiency to beat Williams’ Carlos Sainz to pole place.
Whereas Verstappen continues to carry out at an unimaginable stage, the dearth of a title on the finish of the season means it gained’t be a memorable one for him when he retires.
“I feel once I’m older, I gained’t actually care,” Verstappen mentioned. “I’ll simply take into consideration different stuff, take pleasure in with my mates, household, after which possibly get some highlights — like, “properly, yeah, that was good.” But it surely’s been a superb 12 months for positive.
“I’m pleased with my performances. It looks as if now we perceive the automobile a bit higher, which I feel is crucial out of it.
“After which once I really feel a bit happier within the automobile, you possibly can extract naturally a bit extra out of it. And that’s what we’re doing proper now. So hopefully we will simply hold that going.”
Can Verstappen make it back-to-back wins?
Verstappen dominated the final race at Monza from pole place, successful by 19 seconds.
Verstappen was happy with the progress Purple Bull have made since FP1, regardless of a chaotic qualifying.
Max Verstappen
“Lengthy qualifying, to be trustworthy, with so many crimson flags,” Verstappen added.
“So it was very troublesome to mainly get your lap collectively, as a result of more often than not your tyres usually are not actually prepared or once more, a crimson flag occurs. So particularly Q3, with additionally a little bit of rain round, it was a really troublesome session. After which within the ultimate lap, you simply should ship it.
“I wasn’t even on the very best tyres that I wished, however due to all of the crimson flags, you mainly run out of tyres. And yeah, I’m very pleased with how the weekend went up to now. As a result of I feel, you realize, from FP1, we weren’t too unhealthy, and we simply stored on bettering a tiny quantity. After which we had been there in qualifying, and that’s, after all, the place it issues.”
Verstappen ought to have a transparent run on the victory early on.
The 2 McLarens are set to begin from seventh and ninth respectively.
Leclerc is the lead Ferrari in tenth, whereas Lewis Hamilton certified twelfth.
Waiting for the race, Verstappen mentioned: “Yeah. Nonetheless, once more, lengthy race. After all, you need to have a superb begin.
“However even then, we simply have to do our personal race, take care of our tyres, as a result of it’s nonetheless fairly powerful on the tyres round right here due to the softer compounds. After which, we’ll see what occurs.”
