Max Verstappen: the championship goal, and the celebration

SportLocation Formula 1 Desk · 13 Oct 2026

Max Verstappen’s words about achieving the championship goal lead into a montage of the celebrations, from standing on the car to raising his arms above the crowd.

“Our goal, of course, was to win this championship, and now we've done that,” Max Verstappen says beside a microphone. The line gives the surrounding images their meaning: a target reached, followed by a celebration that spills from the car to the crowd.

A helmeted driver stands on the nose of a Red Bull-branded car, then raises an arm as spectators watch. Later, both arms go up above the crowd. The sequence makes the car part of the celebration, not just its backdrop.

The montage also cuts to a cockpit view looking down a floodlit straight, a sharp reminder of the racing behind the words. But its defining image is the driver above the crowd, arms raised.