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Verstappen admits to 2025 title race mind games

Dec.16 Max Verstappen has admitted he was still playing psychological games during the 2025 title fight with McLaren – despite earlier insisting he no longer needed to. Back in October, the quadruple world champion played down any suggestion of mental tactics against Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, contrasting the season with his bruising 2021 duel against Lewis Hamilton. 'Back then, that was kind of the game I played. Will I do that again? I don't need to,' Verstappen said at the time. 'Back then, I'd never won a world title. Now I have a few, and they haven't. At this stage, you're naturally more nervous if you haven't become world champion yet than if you already have those...
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