Which F1 Tracks Has Max Verstappen Not Won At?

• Only two circuits on the 2026 F1 calendar sit outside Max Verstappen’s win record: the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore and the brand-new Madrid circuit, which hosts its first-ever Formula 1 race in September 2026.
• Singapore is the longest-standing gap in Verstappen’s 71-win career among active calendar venues, with the tight street layout proving resistant even during his record-breaking 2023 season when Carlos Sainz ended his 10-race winning streak there.
• Verstappen has won at 26 different circuits across four world championships, with the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico and the Red Bull Ring in Austria sharing the record for his most victories at a single venue with five wins each.

What Tracks Has Max Verstappen Not Won At?

Only two circuits on the 2026 F1 calendar sit outside Max Verstappen’s win record. The tracks Max Verstappen has not won at heading into the second half of the season are the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore and the brand-new Madrid circuit near the IFEMA Exhibition Centre, which hosts its inaugural Formula 1 race on September 13.

Singapore stands as the longest-running gap in Verstappen’s 71-win career among active calendar venues, while Madrid is a track that nobody in the sport has raced at yet. Across 26 different circuits and four world championships, Verstappen has closed nearly every gap on the current F1 calendar, including Monaco, where he broke through in 2021 after years of frustration at F1’s most demanding street circuit.

Singapore: Verstappen’s Longest-Standing Missing Win

The Marina Bay Street Circuit is the one established track on the 2026 calendar where Verstappen has raced multiple times and never finished first. The circuit held particular relevance during the 2023 season, when Carlos Sainz won the Singapore Grand Prix and ended Verstappen’s 10-race winning streak, the longest in F1 history. Red Bull and Verstappen arrived in Singapore that year having dominated every race since the Miami Grand Prix, but the tight, bumpy street layout exposed weaknesses in the RB19’s setup that were invisible at conventional circuits. Verstappen qualified 11th and finished fifth, his worst result of an otherwise historically dominant season.

The characteristics that make Singapore difficult for Verstappen are the same ones that define most street circuits: narrow racing lines, heavy kerbs, zero margin for error, and track surfaces that evolve unpredictably across a night race weekend. Verstappen described the challenge to CNBC in 2022: “It is a very tough track just because it’s a street circuit… and you have to always leave a bit more margin than on a normal track. Normally, it’s one of the tougher or toughest ones on the calendar.” With the Singapore Grand Prix scheduled for October in 2026, Verstappen will have another opportunity to cross this track off the list, though Red Bull’s difficult start to the new regulations makes a victory at any circuit a challenge this season.

Madrid: The Circuit Nobody Has Raced At

The second track on Verstappen’s “not won” list carries an obvious caveat: nobody has raced at the new Madrid circuit because it has not yet hosted a Formula 1 event. The Spanish Grand Prix moved from Barcelona to a new hybrid layout around the IFEMA Exhibition Centre for 2026, with the first race scheduled for September 13. The circuit measures 5.416 km with 22 turns, roughly 75% purpose-built track and 25% public roads, and features a banked corner known as La Monumental. Barcelona retained a separate race on the calendar under the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix name, meaning Spain now hosts two rounds per season under a deal running through 2035.

For Verstappen, Madrid represents a blank canvas rather than a genuine gap in his record. He won the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona four times (2016, 2022, 2023, and 2024) and is one of the most successful drivers in the event’s history. Whether Madrid joins his win list will depend entirely on Red Bull’s competitiveness later in the season.

How Verstappen Won at 26 Different Circuits

Verstappen’s 71 career wins are spread across 26 different circuits, a breadth of success that reflects both his ability to adapt to different track layouts and the sustained competitiveness of the Red Bull car across multiple regulation eras. His most successful venue is a tie between the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City and the Red Bull Ring in Austria, where he has won five times each. The altitude of Mexico City and the short, power-dependent layout of the Red Bull Ring both suit Red Bull’s car philosophy, and Verstappen’s record at both circuits stretches back to 2017 and 2018 respectively.

Several tracks that were once considered gaps in his record have been crossed off in recent years. Monaco was perhaps the most notable: Verstappen described it before his first win there as “probably the most difficult one to win, because you know that once you have a bit of a setback in qualifying, for example, you can’t really pass in the race.” He won the Monaco Grand Prix in 2021 and again in 2023. The Australian Grand Prix was another long-standing gap, with Verstappen enduring a series of mechanical retirements and incidents at Albert Park before winning in Melbourne for the first time in 2023. His home race at Zandvoort was never in doubt once the Dutch Grand Prix returned in 2021, and he won three consecutive editions from 2021 to 2023.

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Jarrod Partridge

Jarrod Partridge is the Co-Founder of F1 Chronicle and an FIA accredited journalist with over 30 years of experience following Formula 1. A member of the AIPS International Sports Press Association, Jarrod has covered F1 races at circuits around the world, bringing first-hand insight to every race report, driver profile, and technical analysis he writes.

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