{"id":43441,"date":"2025-04-23T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/43441\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:12:08","slug":"sebastian-vettels-advice-for-max-verstappen-stick-together-amid-f1-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/43441\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Vettel\u2019s advice for Max Verstappen: \u201cStick together\u201d amid F1 uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Sebastian Vettel has advised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/852\/max-verstappen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Verstappen<\/a> and Red Bull to \u201cstick together\u201d amid their inconsistent start to the 2025 F1 season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After five rounds, Verstappen sits just 12 points behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/1014409\/oscar-piastri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1<\/a> drivers\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Dutchman narrowly missed out on a second win of the season last time out in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Verstappen starred in qualifying, taking pole position, before finishing second in the race.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Verstappen ultimately lost the race after receiving a five-second time penalty for going off the track when trying to keep the position when battling Piastri on Lap 1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even though Verstappen is in F1 title contention, his future has been a hot topic.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Verstappen has been heavily linked with a move to Aston Martin, while Mercedes expressed serious interest in him last year as they looked for a Lewis Hamilton replacement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Vettel, who faced a similar dilemma in 2014 at Red Bull, offered his view on Verstappen\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think it\u2019s the time when you really bond. It\u2019s the time, after so many years, you are so close to each other,\u201d Vettel told Sky Sports in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSome people left and some people came, but whether you win championships or not is happening anyways, it\u2019s the nature of F1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut now is the time where you stick together and you have the chance to bounce back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2025 \u201ca decisive year\u201d for Verstappen<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Vettel praised Verstappen, describing him as \u201cthe strongest at the moment\u201d on the 2025 F1 grid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While Red Bull have generally been behind McLaren in performance terms over the last year, no other driver has won more races than Verstappen in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMax has incredible talent, he has matured so much over the last couple of years,\u201d Vettel explained.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think the way he\u2019s constructing his races now is different to the past. It\u2019s much smarter. The progression he\u2019s made, it&#8217;s not the lap time or total performance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s more the consistency, the reliability that he\u2019s there every time. The time he\u2019s taking sometimes to do the move, waiting for when it\u2019s the right time to wait. He sees the race in front, the opportunities he gets. If he doesn\u2019t get the opportunity, then he\u2019s back to the aggression.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe has very good control of himself, and that makes him the strongest at the moment in the grid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMixing those two, the aggression and the experience, together with the natural speed. it\u2019s great to watch and obviously a decisive year for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Vettel has advised Max Verstappen and Red Bull to \u201cstick together\u201d amid their inconsistent start to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,4325,997,707,4200,1073,226,24207,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-43441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-f1-2025","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-max-verstappen","14":"tag-red-bull","15":"tag-sebastian-vettel","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114386512263939721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}