Janne Oivio’s comment: Max Verstappen’s time as a champion is over

New The beginning of the season always means predictions. At the start of the F1 season in Melbourne, we start with the toughest possible.

Max Verstappen Does not win the F1 World Championship 2025.

Verstappen is still, and guaranteed to be the next year, the Formula One Advanced Stander and the most ruthless defender of his own territory.

It does not change. He’s his era Michael Schumacher that Ayrton Senna.

So why doesn’t he win the World Championships this year?

Schumacher and Senna didn’t always win. At that time, it was mostly a matter of not having a good enough car at their disposal. This happened to Schumacher in 1996 and Senna in 1993.

Now is Verstappen’s own 1996 or 1993. Red Bull is not ready for a new season and has no longer offered the fastest car in the Dutch.

Red Bull’s course began to turn already last season. McLare and Ferrari pressed past the development work in the middle of the season and settled the manufacturers’ World Championship title.

Verstappen’s last season’s championship is one of the purest driving skills won for years. He would not have been able to do it if he hadn’t won four of the first five races of the season with the superior Red Bull.

In February, Bahrain’s winter tests became clear that McLaren has the fastest car of the season. Ferrari follows, and Mercedes has woken up from his long hibernation.

Red Bull had a lot of problems and has not reached its last season’s hem. The so -called car. The action window is really small.

At its best, Red Bull is still high -speed, but finding just the right balance to maximize the car is difficult. Even for Verstappen.

What It really happened to the overwhelming stable? Even 2023 Red Bull won all the races and the rules have hardly changed at all.

There are two main reasons.

With current rules, car development potential is limited because the rules are very strict. Red Bull achieved its maximum maximum than others.

The other, and more significant, is the reason for the brain. A huge number of top experts has left Red Bllis in a couple of years, the most famous designer Adrian Newy.

Newey, like many others, disgusted with the internal power struggle of the stables Red Bull’s parent company founder and major owner Dietrich Mateschitzin after death.

When the stable boss still Christian Hornerin The harassment scandal was treated at most questionably, many decided to change the landscape.

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Verstappen can only be struggled with championship if McLaren and Ferrari’s drivers scored points from each other, and no one stands out.

Engineer Rob Marshalldesigner And Fallows and strategy leader Jonathan Wheatley In addition to Newey, they are the most prominent key players.

Before long, the disappearance of know -how begins to appear. That moment is now.

Newey’s successor Pierre Waché He is a top factor as a technical leader, but he has not managed to repair the car’s sinks.

The task is difficult when you have to look for a car for the upcoming season at the same time and focus on season 2026. It is a recipe for a disaster.

Upcoming So the setting of the season is really delicious. The best drivers don’t have the best car.

McLaren has two young top drivers, Lando Norris and Oscar Plastri. Ferrari recruited Lewis Hamilton Charles Leclercin To chase eighth world championships.

18-year-old Some Antonelli Raised to Mercedes on Hamilton. George Russell is always dangerous.

Six eight different racing winners will probably be seen this season. Conditions and different profiles of the tracks will raise the fastest stable from week to week.

Verstappen can only be struggled with championship if McLaren and Ferrari’s drivers scored points from each other, and no one stands out.

All In addition, the 2026 season is already haunted in the background.

At that time, F1 rules change tremendously. The stables must decide well in advance of the current season when the development of the modern car will be discontinued.

This, in turn, can lead to hard risk -taking. McLaren and Ferrari, in particular, crave the return to the drivers’ championship.

There will be a staggering season before the history of the series, perhaps the biggest single upheaval.

Formula One season’s opening race in Melbourne will run at 06am on Sunday morning. Viaplay shows the competition.