Max Verstappen

“My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.”

“I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.”

“The biggest critic I have in my life is my dad, so everything else is just a breeze; it doesn't really matter to me.”

“I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.”

“We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!”

“It doesn't matter as long as, at one point, I'm in a championship-winning car. I don't care about my team-mate.”

“People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It's the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.”

“Of course I think everybody has moments in their careers when they're frustrated, or you're not happy with the current situation.”

“I was never Mad Max. I was just Max who was trying to get the best result for the team.”

“As a driver, it is important to focus on yourself and believe in yourself, and there shouldn't be a reason why, when you are in F1 and there is more attention, you change your approach.”

“My career is more important than girls.”

“Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.”

“I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.”

“I say what I think, and if somebody attacks me unfairly, I definitely tell them.”

“You always want to do better than last year.”

“I'm normally not really an angry person. Maybe some other people have a different opinion.”

“It is not because others tell me I have to change my driving style that I will change.”

“Many people ask, 'What do you need mentally to succeed in F1?' I say, 'What do you mean mentally?'”

“When I was very little, my dad had his own go kart team as well while he was still in F1, so I always joined and riding through the paddock on my bicycle.”

“I have good people around me, so I always have advice. A lot of people can talk to me, but it's me, of course, who still has to take that to the track and to perform.”