Max Verstappen reveals 2025 F1 absence plans in FIA suspension claim

Max Verstappen has revealed whether he will take an absence from the 2025 Formula 1 season after he made a tongue-in-cheek FIA suspension claim.

The FIA announced their clampdown on the use of foul-language in 2024, rules that Verstappen immediately broke after he swore in a press conference at the Singapore GP, and therefore had to partake in community service as a punishment.

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Since then, the FIA have escalated their punishment for misconduct, which includes swearing, increasing fines and even introducing the chance of a race ban.

These new rules have already been implemented in 2025 at the World Rally Championship, where Adrien Fourmaux was fined €10,000 for swearing during a television broadcast.

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Will Verstappen miss a F1 race in 2025?

Verstappen also made headlines at the end of 2024 after the Dutchman revealed he will become a father for the first time with partner Kelly Piquet.

The pair's first child together will be born during the 2025 season, and Verstappen has been asked whether he will miss a few races when his child arrives.

“I could of course skip a race, but I won’t,” Max Verstappen told the media ahead of the F1 75 event in London.

“That’s not part of being a racing driver. So it could be that I won’t be there. But we’ll see when the birth gets closer.”

Verstappen elaborated on why he would not miss any races, and even delivered a cheeky jibe directed at the FIA’s swearing ban during his reasoning.

“It’s possible, but I won’t do it," Verstappen added separately to Algemeen Dagblad. “This is just part of being a Formula 1 driver. If it happens, it happens. I can’t do anything about it.

“Unfortunately, Formula 1 drivers don’t get free time like that, but at the same time, I’m not the one who gives birth. Or maybe I will be suspended because I have too many penalty points for swearing [laughs]."

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