Max Verstappen: The 2025 Title Contenders
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On the second of our special episodes looking at our three title contenders, we're turning our attention to the man looking to win his fifth Championship - even if he probably had no right to do so.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:09.5 | Today is the second episode of our three-part special, all about this season's championship contenders. |
| 0:16.8 | Today, it's the man looking to become a five-time world champion, Max Vastappen. |
| 0:22.8 | Okay, let's head to Max Vestappen. |
| 0:25.8 | He is 12 points behind the championship leader, Orlando Norris, with seven race victories. |
| 0:31.8 | Japan, Imola, Monser, Baku, Austin, Vegas, Qatar, his wins with 14 podiums. |
| 0:40.0 | Max Verstappen. |
| 0:41.9 | How is he there? |
| 0:42.6 | He must be sat here. |
| 0:44.4 | Oh, he's not sat here. |
| 0:45.1 | I wish he was sat here. |
| 0:46.2 | You must be sat there, Tommy. |
| 0:48.2 | Max must be sat wherever he is, thinking, how am I going into the title decider |
| 0:53.1 | actually with a shot of winning this world championship? |
| 0:57.9 | It's been a great season from Max. |
| 1:01.5 | There's been a couple of lowlights we'll get into, but a lot of highlights in a car that |
| 1:06.0 | has been very back and forth, up and down, roller coaster sorts of form. But Max has done a brilliant |
| 1:13.3 | job this season to maximise most opportunities, I have to say. And that's what's brought him |
| 1:19.7 | into the championship. Yes, MacLown have made mistakes, but it's always been Max Vastappen |
| 1:24.5 | ready to take any sort of crumbs that the papyr team want to give. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah, definitely. There's two sides of this story. Max Verstappen has been unbelievable this season. |
| 1:36.0 | You know, he's put in a season where everyone, you know, even his biggest haters are now kind of going, |
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