Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing at the European start of the 2025 season with a win that will be significantly more worth than 25 points and the future of the team will significantly shape. This time Oscar Piatri is only noticeable with an unforgivable mistake, says Sport.de columnist and RTL-insider Felix Görner.
After Imola you can say: Little Lily makes Papa Max even faster!
And: Christian Horner saves the job. There was a lot of pressure on it. Does the upgrade work? Yes or no? It works. And Horner, as the team leader of Red Bull Racing, can also sleep calmly again.
Red Bull represents the Verstappen soft for the future
Findings number two: Max Verstappen will drive 100 percent at Red Bull Racing next year. Because with this race, which was very important for Red Bull, he will fight against the two McLaren drivers for the World Cup – and has good chances.
Especially for races like in Imola or the next in Monaco, it’s about qualifying and the three are at a thousandth level when everything runs normally. And for Verstappen, of course, this is a very, very good view to get his fifth title in a row.
With this race in Imola, the course has been set for the future.
More pasta than verbal at Piatri
To Piatri you can say: If you think more about pasta than in Verstappen, you will be surprised. This is something that Piatri cannot afford. He underestimated one and overestimated the other. And the underestimated was Max Verstappen, who completely won the race. So huge breathe sigh of relief at Red Bull Racing.
However, the construction site remains second driver. What you can already read out: Isack Hadjar is on the way to becoming a Red Bull driver. He brings everything out of shot and grain what Helmut Marko wants: assertiveness and consistency. He sits on the neck Yuki tsunoda.
Tsunoda has to be careful not to lose his cockpit for 2026. Hadjar will put everything on to rise. And that is also a realization: he makes it very, very good. Nobody talks about Liam Lawson. It will stay that way. He will certainly lose his cockpit at the end of the year because the performance simply is not right.
The rest of the Formula 1 world is again the case that you can see how strongly there is. The best of his time. He showed that again. And the joke of the day is: In Imola you can’t overtake. You can bury that.