Sebastian Vettel has advised 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and Red Bull to “stick together” amid their inconsistent start to the 2025🧜 F1 se🌊ason.

After five rounds, Verstappen sits just 12 points behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri in the F1 drivers’ championship.

The Dutchman narr🌜owly missed out on a second win of the season last time oꦛut in Saudi Arabia.

Verstappen starred in qualifying, tak🧸ing pole position, before finishing second in the race.

Verstappen ultimately lost the race after receiving a five-seconꦰd time penalty forꦏ going off the track when trying to keep the position when battling Piastri on Lap 1.

Even though Verstappen is in F1 title contentio✨n, his future has been a hot topic.

Verstappen has been heavily linked with a move to Aston Martin, while Mercedes expressed serious interest in him last year as they looked for a Lewis🧸 Hamilton replacement.

Vettel, who faced a similar d💟ilemma in 2014 at Red Bull, offered his ♌view on Verstappen’s future.

“I think it’s the t🌳ime when you really bond. It’s the time, after so many years, you are so close to each other,” Vettel told Sky Sports in Saudi Arabia.

“Some people left and some people came, but whether you win championships or not is happening a❀nyways, it’s the nature of F1.

“But now is the tim🌳e where you stick together and you have the chance to bounce back.”

2025 “a decisive year” for Verstappen

Vettel praised Verstappen, describing him as “the strongest at the mom🎃ent” on the 2025 F1 grid.

While Red ♍Bull have generally been behind McLaren in performance term🔜s over the last year, no other driver has won more races than Verstappen in the last 12 months.

“Max has incredible talent, he has matured so much ov🦹er the last couple of years,” Vettel explained.

“I think the way he’s constructing his races now is ಞdifferent to the past. It’s much smarter. The progression he’s made, it's not the lap ti༺me or total performance.

“It’s more the consistency, the reliability that he’s there every time. The time he’s taking sometimes to do the move, waiting for🎶 when it’s the right time to wait. He sees the race in front, the opportunities he gets. If he doesn’t get the opportunity, then he’s back to the aggression.

“He𓆉 has very good control of himself, and that makes him the stro⛦ngest at the moment in the grid.

“Mixingꦛ th🧜ose two, the aggression and the experience, together with the natural speed. it’s great to watch and obviously a decisive year for him.”