Max Verstappen’s 10 best Red Bull performances after reaching 200 Grand Prix starts for the team

Follow us on Google Discover

Max Verstappen has reached an important landmark in his F1 career at the halfway point in 2025, having now completed 200 races with Red Bull.

Red Bull is the team that gave the 17-year-old Verstappen a shot at F1 when he was impressing in European Formula 3, offering the Dutchman a fast-track seat as early as 2015.

The gamble paid off with him producing some brilliant drives in his rookie season, before going on to win his first of four world championships in 2021.

With Verstappen reaching the 200-race landmark for Red Bull, here are 10 of his best races with the Milton Keynes squad over the years.

2016 Spanish Grand Prix

The exit of Sebastian Vettel at the end of 2014 enabled Red Bull to promote Daniil Kvyat alongside Daniel Ricciardo, but the Russian struggled to bring home results.

With Kvyat under pressure, Verstappen’s impressive start to the 2016 season led to a swap for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Verstappen jumped into the RB12 with little preparation and qualified in third. At the start of the race, he was gifted the lead when both Mercedes of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton collided and took each other out.

The Dutchman only had to bring it home to secure an iconic debut victory, but was under pressure from the oldest driver on the grid, Kimi Raikkonen. Verstappen withstood the pressure and became the youngest ever Grand Prix winner at 18 years and 228 days old.

2016 Brazilian Grand Prix

It was the race that cemented Verstappen’s status as one of the brightest F1 talents. Racing in the rain at Interlagos, Verstappen pulled off a sensational overtake around the outside of Rosberg for fourth.

Despite a spin on the main start/finish straight that dropped him to 16th, Verstappen would work his way up the field to third place and displayed the early signs of the fearlessness needed to win championships.

READ MORE: Red Bull driver Max Verstappen’s life outside F1 from net worth to girlfriend

2018 Mexican Grand Prix

It was beginning to be a difficult season for Verstappen after a crash at Monaco prompted Red Bull’s Christian Horner to say that he needed to stop making errors.

Things turned around in the second half of the year when he won races in Austria and then Mexico, having taken the lead from Ricciardo on the opening lap. He would go on to build up a 30-second lead to second-placed Vettel, while Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton were the only other drivers on the lead lap.

2020 70th Anniversary Grand Prix (Silverstone)

The one-off event to commemorate F1’s 70th anniversary took place just a week after the British GP, but this time the tyre compounds were slightly different.

Verstappen made use of the clean air effectively in this race to beat Mercedes, whose car was unstoppable for most of the year.

He would go on to lead Hamilton at the chequered flag by 11.3 seconds, as Mercedes took a cautious approach to avoid any chance of a high-speed blowout like the previous week.

2021 Austrian Grand Prix

The race in Austria would be Verstappen’s first Grand Slam in F1, with the Dutchman achieving pole, fastest lap, and leading every lap of the Grand Prix.

The win enabled him to edge closer to Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ Championship, which would go down to the wire at the end of the season in Abu Dhabi in the infamous title showdown.

2022 Hungarian Grand Prix

Verstappen was forced to start from 10th after problems with his power unit, on a circuit that is notoriously tough to overtake on.

Charles Leclerc was the favourite to win the race, but a strategy error enabled Verstappen, who had undercut Fernando Alonso and Hamilton for P5, to take the lead later in the race.

Despite a spin exiting Turn 13, Verstappen recovered and passed Leclerc again for the win and crossed the line nearly eight seconds ahead of the field.

READ MORE: The best moments of Max Verstappen’s career in Formula 1

2022 Belgian Grand Prix

More grid penalties due to power unit components, Verstappen had initially qualified on pole but was relegated to 14th on the grid. Surely he couldn’t win from here?

The Dutchman proved everyone wrong when he passed nine cars in nine laps, then by lap 12 he overtook Sergio Perez for the lead. Verstappen would go on to dominate the rest of the race, taking the point for fastest lap and winning by a margin of 17 seconds.

2023 Spanish Grand Prix

Another grand slam came in 2023 for Verstappen, following those at Austria and Emilia Romagna in 2022. Verstappen took a lights-to-flag victory in a year that Red Bull won 22 of the 23 Grands Prix on the calendar with the RB19.

The Dutchman would go on to achieve another two grand slams at Qatar in 2023 and Bahrain in 2024, putting him third on the overall list with Alberto Ascari and Michael Schumacher, and behind Lewis Hamilton and Jim Clark.

READ MORE: Max Verstappen’s biggest penalties in Formula 1

2023 Monaco Grand Prix

After missing out on the win in 2022, Verstappen was keen to put things right in 2023. His lap for pole was mesmerising, with the Dutchman riding the walls exiting Anthony Nogues corner.

Verstappen went on to lead the race from lights to flag, securing his second win around the principality having won his first in 2021.

2025 Japanese Grand Prix

After McLaren’s start to the season, it looked like it would take a lot to beat them after Red Bull couldn’t match them.

Suzuka is one of Verstappen’s favourite circuits, and after stunning even himself with pole, he would go on to hold off both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in the race.

It was his fourth consecutive victory at Suzuka, securing his status as a master around the figure of eight circuit.