And when asked how much missing a race would hurt, he responded: “If you look at it in general, yeah, missing a race is not ideal, but it’s not the end of the world.”
The Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve has been a successful track for Verstappen in recent times, the Dutch driver having won the event consecutively for the past three years.
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However, as much as he would like to repeat this in 2025, Verstappen is not so sure that it will be the case this time around.
“I wish we would be as competitive as we were of course in the past, but I think the world has been a bit different for us at the moment,” the Red Bull man conceded.
“I think a realistic target for us is to try and be on the podium and try to fight with Ferrari and Mercedes, which I think is already hard enough for us. So we’ll try to do that.”