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A look at f1 world champion max verstappen's private jet.

Sometimes nicknamed 'the flying Dutchman,' Verstappen certainly takes to the skies in style!

• Max Verstappen's Dassault Falcon 900EX features a unique livery and was acquired from Sir Richard Branson for approximately $15 million.
• The private jet has long-range capabilities, a spacious cabin, and luxurious amenities for up to 12 passengers.
• Verstappen and Fernando Alonso are currently the only Formula One drivers with private jets.

With matches, tournaments, and races being held in different parts of the world each season, many professional athletes opt for private jets to allow them more comfortable and convenient travel when hopping across continents.

While many footballers, racing drivers, and other celebrities own expensive private jets , very few are as eye-catching as Formula One champion Max Verstappen's Dassault Falcon 900EX. With the 2024 Formula One season upon us, the Belgian-Dutch racer will indeed have a lot of flying to do this year. Luckily, he has just the equipment for the job. Let's take a look at Max Verstappen's private jet.

A well-utilized aircraft

Verstappen's Dassault Falcon 900EX , registration PH-DTF, has a unique matt black and orange livery. It also features his logo on the tail section, so it surely would not be hard to spot if it were to land at an airport near you. According to Superyacht Fan , the jet is about 16 years old, having been built in 2008.

Verstappen acquired it in late 2020 from Virgin Atlantic founder Sir Richard Branson. It is reportedly worth around $15 million. He wasted no time putting his Dassault Falcon to use, as he reportedly traveled on it to every race in the 2021 Formula One season, which concluded with him being crowned world champion for the first time.

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Long-range capabilities

As you know, airlines and private jets play a big part in Formula One's logistics today . Verstappen's aircraft is perhaps one of the most luxurious when it comes to its amenities. It has a spacious cabin and can fit up to 12 passengers. It features a private bar, and two of the 12 seats can be reclined together to make a bed.

It isn't just in terms of comfort that the aircraft excels. Indeed, the Dassault Falcon 900EX is a special version of the French manufacturer's standard Falcon 900 jet, like the one owned by Taylor Swift . While there are different variants of the jet, the 900EX is a long-range version capable of flying up to 4,500 NM (8,336 km).

It is just as well that Verstappen was able to source an aircraft with such long-range capabilities, given that the Formula One calendar features races all over the world. While many other motorsports drivers own private jets , Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso are currently the only Formula One drivers with private jets.

Another eye-catching livery

There are many specs to compare between aircraft, but when it comes to eye-catching liveries, Max Verstappen's Falcon 900EX was closely rivaled by fellow Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton's Bombardier Challenger 605. However, Hamilton sold it a few years ago to opt for more sustainable travel methods.

Before selling it, the British racer, who is now joining Ferrari, had admitted that he did not like white planes, so he had his jet pimped out with a cherry red livery. The Bombardier Challenger had registration G-LCDH, representing his initials - Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton. It was worth about $29 million and could accommodate up to 19 passengers.

What do you make of Max Verstappen's private jet? Have you ever seen his luxurious Dassault Falcon 900EX on your travels? Let us know your thoughts and experiences in the comments!

Max Verstappen is talking about Formula 1 retirement. The sport's popularity could be a major factor

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Max Verstappen is on top of the Formula 1 world.

He has won the previous two drivers' championships and currently boasts a 53-point lead in this year's title race. 

At 25, with 40 race wins and two world championships under his belt , even his biggest sceptic would be hard-pressed to say the feats of Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher are out of his reach. 

But Verstappen has made plenty of noise this year about life after F1. 

He has a contract with Red Bull until the end of 2028. While that seems a long way from now, Verstappen has made many statements that he could leave the sport after that.

While it seems unfathomable Verstappen could contemplate life after F1 while at the top of his game, there are hints the top brass of the sport should heed.

In an interview with the UK's Sky Sports F1 for their Monaco Grand Prix broadcast , Verstappen said the demands of F1 were becoming tough and he may not want to do it at the end of his current contract. 

"I don't want to, when I'm that age, to travel 25 races a year, and besides that, travel to the UK for simulator work, or do an appearance or a commitment here and there. it's too much at one point," he said. 

"At one point it's just like, I think it's enough to be away that much a year."

There are 22 races this season, with another two scheduled but cancelled. 

By comparison, Lewis Hamilton's debut season in 2007 had 17 races and required a lot less long haul travel.

F1 has grown exponentially in recent years. 

Its popularity has increased the demand for more races in more locations — with more excitement and more drama.

But the sport can run the risk of over-indulgence, especially with future seasons expected to have as many as 24 races.

The popularity of a sport is often directly related to the popularity of its biggest stars, and F1 always wants the best drivers to choose to drive their cars.

But recently, some drivers have walked away from the pinnacle class.

Nico Rosberg, then aged 31, retired after winning the world championship in 2016.

Fernando Alonso also left F1 for two years, choosing other categories including the World Endurance Championship, which features famous races including the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

"I like to be competitive, I like to win, but if you can't fully motivate yourself to get to every race, then I think that's the point where you have to question yourself," Verstappen said.

"Do you really want to continue?"

Outside of Ferrari and McLaren, much of F1's fandom comes through the drivers rather than the teams.

So hearing that one of the most popular drivers in F1 is thinking of life outside of the pinnacle class, will make the powerbrokers take notice.

Motorsport is very diverse, so F1 does not need to fear any rebel league like the civil war that took over golf.

But just because F1 is the biggest and most popular now, does not mean it will be that way forever.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans had 16 hypercars competing in the race this year, the most in years. Ferrari even made a return to win the race in front of hundreds of thousands of fans.

Meanwhile, Indycar has enjoyed a rise in interest since the COVID pandemic, especially in the US.

Both of those series have a major advantage over F1 for drivers — less racing.

While these series may not be able to rival F1 currently for the world's best drivers, you would be brave to say they couldn't in the future.

And if they are able to offer similar money and notoriety to F1, the workload may become a disadvantage for Formula 1.

That could mean more of the world's best drivers may wonder about life outside of Formula 1 around 2028.

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What makes F1’s Max Verstappen so fast? ‘An extremely rare natural talent’

The ominously strong showing from Red Bull in testing last week only served to dial up expectations for Max Verstappen going into the 2023 Formula One season.

Right now, no one is operating on Verstappen’s level . A third straight championship would cement this as being F1’s “Verstappen era,” years where grandstands of orange-clad Dutch fans revel in the success of a generational talent.

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And at 25 years old, Verstappen may not even be near his peak.

It’s no secret that the car at a driver’s disposal defines their chance of success. Yet the fashion in which Verstappen swept to last year’s championship — winning a record 15 races to teammate Sergio Pérez’s two — and the delivery of performances like the Belgian Grand Prix, where he went from 14th place to first in 12 laps and won the race by 18 seconds, make clear that he’s not just the beneficiary of strong engineers. 

To understand what makes Verstappen just so fast requires looking beyond the numbers.

‘An extremely rare natural talent’

Verstappen has always stood out as a gifted driver. He was a star of the European go-karting scene before moving into cars for 2014, racing in Formula 3. Red Bull was so impressed by what it saw from Verstappen that it fast-tracked him to F1 for the following year. At 17, he was the youngest driver in the history of the sport. He didn’t even have a regular drivers’ license. 

Concerns across F1 about Verstappen’s readiness pushed the sport’s governing body, the FIA, to introduce a minimum age limit of 18 the following year. But Verstappen quickly displayed a level of car control and composure that belied his youth and proved he belonged on the grid.

“Max Verstappen is one of the highest skilled drivers I’ve ever worked with,” said Franz Tost, who was the driver’s first F1 team boss at Toro Rosso, now known as AlphaTauri . The only other driver Tost puts in the same conversation is Sebastian Vettel , Red Bull’s first junior star, who won four world championships between 2010 and 2013.

Tost saw signs of Verstappen’s natural talent in go-karting, when Red Bull was tracking his progress. “Some of the kart races, mamma mia,” Tost said. “How he drove, how he overtook, and how he had everything under control, was just fantastic.”

Tost only got to work with Verstappen for around 18 months. In that time, Verstappen became F1’s youngest point scorer in only his second race, and recorded a best finish of fourth in Hungary and the United States — a big result for one of the smallest teams on the grid. 

Four races into his second F1 season, Verstappen was promoted to Red Bull’s senior team, replacing the struggling Daniil Kvyat. It was a shock move. Teams rarely change drivers mid-season, let alone so early. But Red Bull wanted to get Kvyat out of the spotlight — and, more importantly, Verstappen into it. 

His natural talent was again evident from the moment he got his hands on a car capable of fighting for victory. On debut for Red Bull at the Spanish Grand Prix, Verstappen fended off Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen and Daniel Ricciardo, a trio with five world titles and hundreds of race starts between them, to become F1’s youngest race winner at just 18 years old. It’s a record that is unlikely to ever be beaten.

And it showed off the instinctive ability that’s at the center of Verstappen’s success. Daring overtakes, perfect pole laps and recoveries from sideways slides — keeping the car out of the wall at Brazil in 2016 was an early iconic Verstappen moment — all seem to come so easily. 

Verstappen’s long-serving race engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, identifies that ability as the key factor that makes him so quick. Lambiase is essentially in charge of looking after Verstappen when he’s out on-track. His voice is the one heard talking to Verstappen on the radio, relaying information about the car and his strategy during a race.

“He has an extremely rare natural talent,” Lambiase told The Athletic . “An innate feeling for the connection between himself, the car and the road.”

A unique driving style

That connection allows Verstappen to get more out of his car than most. All drivers work with their engineers to tune the car to their liking. Most want a car that can be turned into corners aggressively, but sacrifice some of that quality to stop the back of the car from stepping out and causing a spin.

What sets Verstappen apart is his ability to deal with a very loose rear end, to feel when the rear of the car is at the limit before bringing it under control. That allows him the extra “pointy” front end that lets him chuck into corners faster and harder than his opponents, getting the most out of a Red Bull car that is already the class of the field.

“We both want a good front end. It’s just a question of how stable the rear end can be,” teammate Pérez explained in Bahrain last week when asked about Verstappen’s driving style. “Max has been able to cope with a looser rear end.”

Pérez is not the first Red Bull driver to struggle more with that. Alex Albon spent a season and a half racing alongside Verstappen, but struggled to get close to his level of performance, leading to his exit in favor of Perez.

“Everything looks natural for him when he’s driving,” Albon said. “It’s a very clean driving style, but I know he’s on the limit.”

Apparently, this comes so easily to Verstappen that he considers it natural. “I never experienced a fast car which has understeer (turning less sharply than desired) in my life, in any category,” he said. “I feel like if people ask me what is your driving style, I cannot tell you, because I always adapt to what I get in the best way possible.”

Unwavering consistency

It’s hard to think of many races where Verstappen seemed off the pace or did not maximize the ability of his car in recent years. Take 2022, when he won 15 of the 22 races. The seven races he did not win were:

• Bahrain GP: Retired due to a fuel pump issue after battling for the lead.
• Australian GP: Retired due to another fuel pump issue, was set to finish second.
• Monaco GP: Finished third after a red flag cost him a shot at pole in qualifying, on a street circuit where it is hard to overtake.
• British GP: Finished seventh after debris damaged the floor of his car.
• Austrian GP: Finished second after high tire degradation left him unable to fight Charles Leclerc and Ferrari.
• Singapore GP: Seventh because a team mistake in qualifying meant he started eighth, on a circuit where overtaking is difficult.
• Brazilian GP: Sixth when a clash with Lewis Hamilton forced an extra pit stop.

None of these results can be put down to Verstappen underperforming. His tendency for aggressive moves, particularly when battling Hamilton — see also Italy and Saudi Arabia in 2021 — has been the only thing in his championship years that has made Verstappen slip from peak performance.

“He’s just very complete, he very hardly makes mistakes,” Pérez told The Athletic . “He’s able to be at the limit for a very long time during a weekend.”

The ability to get everything out of the car has been there from the start of Verstappen’s F1 career. When he raced for Toro Rosso, a team in F1’s midfield for which regular points was the target, knowing Verstappen would always be at the max was a useful gauge of what the car was really capable of.

“These drivers always find a way to bring the car to the best possible success,” said Tost. “Max was there, he was simply within the first six, seven, eight cars. They get the real potential out of the car. If they’re there, you know, OK, this is the potential, and more is not possible.”

Mental capacity

F1 drivers do so much more than drive the car. They have myriad switches, dials and buttons on their steering wheels to adjust things like engine modes or brake bias throughout the race. They think about tire wear, strategy options and changing weather conditions, as well as the rival drivers around them, all of it at speeds of up to 220 mph.

You need a big mental capacity, but that comes to some drivers easier than others. In Verstappen’s case, that ability is one that has been evident from the early days.

Jody Egginton, who was Toro Rosso’s head of vehicle performance when Verstappen came up (and is now AlphaTauri’s technical director), looks for young drivers’ ability to identify how they car feels through certain corners, even if a lack of experience means they don’t understand the why of it. 

“That’s been a good trait with Max and other young drivers,” Egginton said. “To be able to highlight something, even if it’s just a comment whilst driving … That’s a big standout.”

That’s because such feedback is critical to unlocking car performance. Teams will make use of the practice sessions on a Friday to get their car in a rough setup window, tailoring the settings to make the driver comfortable. But it’s up to the driver to work with the team to finetune all the small elements that can be decisive. A tweak worth half a tenth of a second could be the difference between pole position and fourth place.

Total dedication

As with all elite sportspeople, F1 drivers need to be incredibly committed to their craft if they want to be the best. 

Tost again names Verstappen and Vettel as being the two standout drivers he has worked with in this regard. “It’s their passion, they live for Formula 1,” he said. “That’s very, very important. People underestimate it. They want to know everything. They live for it.” 

It’s something that has been ingrained in Verstappen from a very young age by his father, Jos Verstappen, who raced in F1 in the 1990s and early 2000s. Father and son toured Europe together, dominating the go-kart scene, always working toward F1.

For a driver who has been in the spotlight from his mid-teens, Verstappen hasn’t let the trappings of life in F1 go to his head. He’s not been caught up in any off-track controversies, nor has he seemed to change a huge amount as a person. To him, his focus has always been on simply becoming a better driver.

When Verstappen isn’t at a race or preparing with the team for a grand prix weekend or undertaking his own personal training, he’s likely to be sim racing. He has a rig at home that he uses to digitally compete with many of the best sim racers in the world, and while it may not replicate the physical movement of an F1 car, it does help to hone skills such as car control or set-up.

Verstappen revealed earlier this month he even plans to install a simulator in a new motorhome he will use to travel around the races in Europe. “That way, I just can keep on driving when I’m back in the evening,” he said. “I like it, it’s my hobby in a way, and it just keeps you sharp as well.” 

Even after a day in a real F1 car, Verstappen is thinking about driving a virtual one — and looking to win.

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Luke Smith is a Senior Writer covering Formula 1 for The Athletic. Luke has spent 10 years reporting on Formula 1 for outlets including Autosport, The New York Times and NBC Sports, and is also a published author. He is a graduate of University College London. Follow Luke on Twitter @ LukeSmithF1

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Max Verstappen back on track after ruthless win at F1 Japanese Grand Prix

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Max Verstappen shone in the spring sunshine of the Japanese Grand Prix’s new early season slot with a victory that served as salutary reminder he is firmly on course for his fourth world championship, and on this form he looks all but unstoppable.

The race has moved from its traditional place at the back end of the calendar for the first time since it was first held here in 1987 and the date has coincided with the Japanese sakura – cherry blossom – season. The trees have adorned the track with a riot of pinks and whites, offering a colourful backdrop for amateur snappers in their hordes and TV ­producers alike. However, hopes that there would be a matching new bloom of competition on the track were all too swiftly and decisively dashed on the glorious figure‑of‑eight circuit.

Verstappen, who had started from pole, won at a canter, trouble‑free and unchallenged out front. So much so that it appeared it had not even inspired a superlative from the Dutchman who, as has been the case already this season, is taking the victories very much in his stride.

“Very nice, everything just went really well,” he said after climbing from the cockpit. “Pit stops, the strategy, it couldn’t have been any better.” He had, it seemed, barely ­broken a sweat on what he described ­repeatedly as a “nice” drive. Not quite the gladiatorial triumph of a champion yelling “Are you not entertained?” that F1 is trying to sell to the recent surge in new fans.

If there is any jeopardy for the world champion at the moment, he is untroubled by it. “­Whenever I needed to go faster I could, ­whenever I needed to look after my tyres, I could,” he said with the same calm, controlled and underwhelming understatement with which he dominated the race.

This was business as usual for Verstappen, and with a decidedly ominous air. Four races of a record 24‑race season have been completed, the remaining 20 stretch long into the year and whereas for Verstappen this will have the pleasing trappings of a victory march, or a nice stroll as he might prefer it, it looks like something of a long old slog for his rivals.

The Red Bull driver comfortably beat his teammate, Sergio Pérez, into second place with a 12.5sec advantage in a race red-flagged on the first lap after Daniel Ricciardo and Alex Albon tangled on entering turn three, leaving both in the wall. After very heavy, dramatic impacts both drivers emerged unhurt.

The nearest challenger not ­driving a Red Bull was Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in third and he was 20sec down the road. After Sainz had won at the previous round in Australia, when ­Verstappen went out with a brake ­failure, there had been optimism that Ferrari were perhaps in the opening phase of mounting a fightback.

There was to be no such resurgence; instead consolidation of the control Verstappen has exerted over the season. He has won three of the races with ease and his consistency remains remarkable. Since the Miami GP last year he has been beaten only twice, both times by Sainz, once in Singapore in 2023 and then in ­Melbourne, a sequence of ­unprecedented dominance.

Suzuka plays to the strengths of the Red Bull, which is beautifully ­balanced through the fast corners, and the highly abrasive surface is miti­gated by the car’s delicate ­handling of its tyres. Yet Verstappen remains very much in a class of his own. There is almost certainly more in the bank for him to draw on were it required. This season, as with last year and 2022, once he has consolidated a healthy lead, he can ease off from caning the car to the flag.

The upgrades Red Bull brought to the meeting appear to have paid off well, demonstrating they will not be standing still and offering any easy opportunities to catch up. With their grip on the championship well established, this was an indi­cation that they intend to maintain the advantage, particularly in these early phases, before potentially switching resources to next year’s car. That is a sobering ­consideration for the neutral in a fight where ­Verstappen leads Pérez by 13 points in the ­drivers’ championship.

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Where Verstappen was on rails, Mercedes laboured, with George Russell and Lewis Hamilton making little headway, finishing seventh and ninth respectively. The team principal, Toto Wolff, still considered the result positive given how far they were off the pace in Japan last year. Mercedes believe their work on the car has yielded genuine steps forward but their fight, as Wolff conceded, is very much to try to catch Ferrari and McLaren for second.

McLaren will rue pitting Lando Norris too early for his second stop, leaving him somewhat at the mercy of the Ferraris, and he was beaten into fifth by Sainz and Charles Leclerc , who claimed fourth on a one-stopper.

Their runs were as bit-part ­players nonetheless and it is impossible to ignore the elephant that dominates the room: that as much as the ­chasing pack are vying with each other, ­Verstappen has reasserted his iron grip on the only business that really matters.

The local hero Yuki Tsunoda provided some lively entertainment in the midfield, making two dashing passes for position in the Esses, a brave proposition at the best of times, and deserved of the acclaim of the crowd on his way to taking 10th place.

Fernando Alonso was sixth for Aston Martin and Oscar Piastri eighth for McLaren.

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F1 News: Max Verstappen Refutes 2026 Regulation Change - 'Tools and Tricks'

A s Formula 1 looks toward the 2026 season, the sport finds itself at a regulatory crossroads, particularly concerning the integration of active aerodynamic systems. These changes are poised to redefine the cars we're currently watching and improve the competitiveness of the racing, but not all stakeholders are on board with the direction the sport is heading. Among the vocal skeptics is Red Bull's leading driver, Max Verstappen, who has openly questioned the necessity and efficacy of these high-tech enhancements.

The upcoming regulation changes for 2026 aim to introduce lighter and more compact cars, featuring a more balanced blend of internal combustion and electric power. The finalized engine regulations have already attracted new competitors, including luxury automaker Audi , signaling a healthy interest in the industry. However, the chassis regulations, especially those related to aerodynamics, remain under intense scrutiny and debate.

The initial proposal includes an active aero system featuring a moveable rear wing, designed to adapt aerodynamically across different racing scenarios. Yet, trials conducted in team simulators have highlighted potential risks, such as an increased likelihood of spins on straights due to abrupt shifts in aero balance. These findings have prompted the FIA to consider additional adjustments, including the incorporation of a moveable front wing to stabilize the cars more effectively.

"I mean, I think we'll have to deal with some compromises on some tracks, you know, where you use a lot of energy per lap," Verstappen stated in Japan , reflecting on the challenges posed by the proposed aerodynamic tools.

"And of course, you know, with the potential like active aero and stuff. I'm not sure if we should head into that direction. That's what it's looking like at the moment."

Verstappen argues that the focus should rather be on combating the inherent weight issues of modern F1 cars and finding more straightforward solutions to enhance overtaking, rather than relying on what he terms "tools and tricks."

"There must be different ways to be able to do it. I guess, also, with the engine regulation that they went into, they kind of need to do that to create the top speed and basically you know where the battery stops deploying and stuff. And yeah some tracks will work a bit better some tracks probably it's a bit more on the edge," Verstappen elaborated.

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, the only non-Red Bull driver to dethrone the reigning champion this season and last, also added his opinion to the conversation.

"I think it's all a consequence of the engine regulations. In the end, if you have a lot more energy requested from the electric powertrain, you're going to need to have, in a way, active aerodynamics to compensate," Sainz explained.

"And there is where it all starts to get messy with the overtaking and the active aero and how you can do that to help the car to go quicker on the straight and spend less time full throttle."

He continued:

"Until we try them, I think it's unfair to criticize or back the regulations."

As Formula 1 continues to evolve, the balance between technological innovation and traditional racing purity remains a contentious point. With significant changes on the horizon, the debate is far from settled, but the insights from top drivers like Verstappen and Sainz will undoubtedly play a crucial role in shaping the future of the sport.

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