What Does Jenson Button Feel About Max Verstappen’s Future?

It might not be a contentious or polarising subject yet, but is fast becoming a topic on which nearly just about everybody has a view. It is the subject of the F1 racing future of current or most recent world champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull. And here is just why this subject is such a widely debated one. For starters, it’s on Max Verstappen, the sport’s most recently anointed world champion. And second, it concerns the very man’s racing future.

Having said that, to some, it is certain that Max Verstappen will stay on and likely capture world title number fifth, sixth or seventh and likely, with Red Bull. But to most others, it also seems quite likely that the Flying Dutchman will likely move away from the sport considered the fastest-form of Motor-Racing and will make way for another driver to take his space in the famed team.

Having said that, what Verstappen has achieved in the sport is quite admirable. One of the most reviled figures of 2021, has gone on to prove his doubters and critics wrong and as seen recently, captured a fourth consecutive drivers’ world championship crown. This is no mean achievement or no lame feat. It sees the famous driver level or at par with Sebastian Vettel, who once was a Red Bull driver (prior to his Ferrari stint).

But while it is quite unclear as to where might Verstappen head to, it’s certain that when someone likes Jenson Button sheds an insight on the sport or one of the its leading figures, you stop whatever it is that you are doing and listen.

And that’s exactly what the former F1 world champion has done where it comes to the widely-debated subject of Max Verstappen’s F1 future.

While Button, who claimed the drivers’ championship in 2024 didn’t shed much of a light on Verstappen’s racing future, he was quite certain of the view that the great driver would continue to win in racing outside of F1.

The famed Briton is of the view that Max Verstappen will continue to be a prolific driver and will not shed any layer of consistency or competitiveness whatsoever where it comes to exploring life as a racer besides or out of F1.

Speaking recently to a Sky sports podcast program, the man behind the enigmatic 2009 drivers’ title was of the following view in reference to Max Verstappen, F1 champion of the world of 2024:

“There are the F1 drivers that are F1 drivers and that is all that matters to them, and when they step away, they won’t race anymore, they’ll go and sit on a beach somewhere or find another job that interests them. But for Max and others like myself, we love motor racing, it is not just Formula 1, so Max won’t step away from Formula 1 and step away from winning.

Having said that, where it stands at the moment, then Max Verstappen will likely aim for a fifth drivers’ crown and perhaps try and upset his closet on-track rival as seen in 2024, Lando Norris. It is worth noting that Norris lost no confidence in himself whatsoever, despite losing out the title crown to Max, who was clearly competing in not the fastest car on track and has reminded the world about a driver’s title in 2025. That and more, it is expected, shall make next year a very gripping watch.