Max Verstappen is not confident about winning the 2025 Drivers' Championship just yet, downplaying Helmut Marko's claims.

Max Verstappen says Christian Horner’s shock dismissal as Red Bull team principal has “made no difference” to his decision over whether to stay at the team, adding “only time will tell” if it is the right move on the part of the team’s shareholders.

Max Verstappen has alluded to the 'difference of opinions' between his father and his old boss Christian Horner when talking about the latter's brutal sacking. Horner was axed as Red Bull team principal earlier this month, after 20 years in the job and 14 world championship titles earned since the team's inception into the sport in 2005.