In the midst of a season of negative interviews, Renger van der Zande has questioned when Max Verstappen is deliberately doing it to rile up himself and Red Bull. Although Verstappen is a Grand Prix winner in F1 2025,

Are incessant questions over his future and the FIA's clampdown on driver speech sapping Verstappen's enthusiasm for Formula 1?

Verstappen received a five-second time penalty for an incident at the 2025 Jeddah race but refused to speak much about his objections