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2025 Formula One World Championship
2025 Italian Grand Prix
Round 16
Monza Circuit
Monza, Italy
Sunday, 7 September 2025
Max Verstappen will be hoping to move closer to
Italian Grand Prix record winners, Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher (five titles each), this weekend.
Most recent race
The Red Bull Racing driver secured a podium spot at the Dutch Grand Prix on 31 August, the most recent race on the 2025 Formula One World Championship calendar.
Verstappen started on the third grid and he went on to finish second, which saw him collect 18 points and also achieve his 118th podium in Formula One.
Formula One title ambitions
The 2024 Autosport Awards Moment of the Year award winner is still placed third in the World Drivers' Championship standings, having accumulated 205 points.
Verstappen is now 70 points behind second-placed Lando Norris of McLaren and 104 points behind leader Oscar Piastri of McLaren.
Why Verstappen could win the 2025 Italian Grand Prix
The 27-year-old will be returning to the Monza Circuit, where he was crowned back-to-back champion as he won the Italian Grand Prix in 2022 and 2023.
Securing his first podium spot in five races at the Dutch Grand Prix has surely boosted Verstappen's confidence coming into this weekend's race as he looks to secure his third victory of the season.
What did he say?
“It wasn't easy. I gave it everything at the start to move forward. I had [a] little moment in Turn 2, but after that, we just had to do our own race," Verstappen said after finishing second in the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix.
"Unfortunately, we didn't have the pace of the McLarens...in general, to be on the podium here is a great result. So, to be in second, I think is a really, really good achievement for us.”
2024 Italian Grand Prix results
Winner: Charles Leclerc - Ferrari
Runner-Up: Oscar Piastri - McLaren
Third-Place: Lando Norris - McLaren
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