Ranked: Max Verstappen's four F1 titles with Red Bull

Max Verstappen is now a 4x world champion and is targeting a fifth one this season. The Dutch entered the sport as a teenager and has already achieved more than many can only aspire to in their careers.

By 2018, Max Verstappen was already established as one of the best talents in F1. However, it was in 2020-21 when his ascension to being the best began as that was when he took the next step with his iconic 2021 last grasp win against Lewis Hamilton.

As the 2025 F1 season looms, Max Verstappen will be targeting his fifth consecutive championship.

With that being said, how do we rank all of his 4 titles? Let's take a look.

Ranking Max Verstappen's 4 titles

#4 - 2022

At no. 4, we have the title win in 2022 which was by no means an ordinary title run. The Red Bull driver started the season on the back foot against Charles Leclerc in his Ferrari. The Italian team was just shot out of the cannon when it came to the performance of the car, and the driver was doing his bit as well.

LeClerc was beating Max Verstappen in a fair fight in Bahrain before the Dutch driver's power unit went up in flames. After a P2 finish in Jeddah, the Monegasque dominated the race in Australia once again before Max Verstappen's engine went kaput.

However, after the race in Australia, the first cracks started to appear in the Ferrari-Charles Leclerc title campaign. Countless strategic disasters coupled with reliability issues meant the title run was never really on.

Max Verstappen, on his part, played the crucial role of making sure that everything was in order when it came to putting together a season with minimal mistakes and maximizing what the car had to offer.

It was a brilliant comeback coupled with an arguably botched title run attempt from Ferrari. While a memorable campaign, Verstappen's remaining three title-winning seasons were even more special.

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#3 - 2023

The 2023 F1 season saw Max Verstappen concede only three race wins, and one could argue that two of those were down to misfortune. The Dutch driver was hamstrung by a reliability issue in Jeddah, a bad pit stop/safety car timing in Baku, and a bad car in Singapore.

This was a season of brilliance, consistency, and unrelenting hunger where the 27-year-old wanted to win every race even though he had won 10 before it.

In F1 history, unless something freakish happens in the future, we're unlikely to see a driver pull off another dominant season of this kind, and that's precisely why this season finds itself third in the championship.

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#2 - 2024

The 2024 F1 season might just be the best season that Max Verstappen has put together in the eyes of many, and it's very hard to dispute such a claim. The Dutch driver started the season with a dominant car for a quarter of a season.

After that, however, the car's performance nosedived, and before we knew it, Max Verstappen was trying to make sure that he got the maximum points from the car he had under him.

On balance, if we look at the 2024 F1 season, Red Bull was not the best car of the year, as those accolades went to McLaren, and yet Verstappen wrapped up the title with a few races to spare, proving how brilliant a job he had been doing.

Why is it not the first on our list? Well, this has to do with the fact that maybe the opposition was not as capable of mounting a challenge and hence left a lot on the table for Verstappen to take advantage of.

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#1 - 2021

At the top of the list is Max Verstappen's title campaign in 2021, and the main reason why this stands out is because he should have never had a chance to win the title. He was quite literally a kid going up against a 7x time world champion driving for a team that had been winning for seven years.

To add to this, on balance (leaving what happened at the infamous Abu Dhabi 2021 out of the picture), Max had been very unlucky at quite a few stages during the season with crashes, reliability issues, and sometimes Lewis Hamilton just getting lucky.

You add all that up, and you still had Verstappen level with Lewis on points heading into the season's last race. The brilliance in that race weekend also cannot be ignored, as Verstappen's qualifying lap was a stunner by all means. Then came Sunday and the last lap of the race.

Sure, he was on old tires, but the point at which he pulled off the overtake surprised Hamilton and caught the Brit unawares. The fact that Verstappen could do it to Hamilton at the peak of his powers and a Mercedes that had forgotten what it meant to lose, was unforeseen and possibly capped off the most competitive season in F1 history.