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Sports · 5 August 2026

Max Verstappen has half a season to save his decade-long F1 winning streak

Max Verstappen has half a season to save his decade-long F1 winning streak

Yu Chu Chin via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

The four-time world champion has managed just four podium finishes across the opening 11 rounds of the year. His Red Bull team started the campaign over a second behind Mercedes, though they recently reduced that deficit to a few tenths. Neither the driver nor his team have gone an entire year without taking a grand prix victory since 2015.

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