​Only two circuits on the 2026 F1 calendar lie outside Max Verstappen’s win record: the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore and the brand-new Madrid circuit near the IFEMA Exhibition Centre, which hosts its first Formula 1 race on September 13, 2026. Singapore represents the longest-standing gap in Verstappen’s 71-win career among active venues, with its tight street layout resisting even his record-breaking 2023 season, when Carlos Sainz halted his 10-race winning streak there. Verstappen has won at 26 different circuits across four world championships, and his five victories at both the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico and the Red Bull Ring in Austria tie for the most wins at a single venue.
Across 26 circuits and four championships, Verstappen has closed nearly every gap on the current F1 calendar, including Monaco, where he finally broke through in 2021 after years of frustration at the sport’s most demanding street circuit. The Marina Bay Street Circuit is the only established track on the 2026 calendar at which Verstappen has raced multiple times but never finished first. It held particular significance in 2023, when Carlos Sainz won the Singapore Grand Prix and ended Verstappen’s 10-race winning streak—the longest in F1 history. Red Bull and Verstappen arrived in Singapore that year having dominated every race since the Miami Grand Prix, but the tight, bumpy street layout exposed weaknesses in the RB19’s setup that were invisible at conventional tracks. Verstappen qualified 11th and finished fifth, his worst result of an otherwise historically dominant season.
The characteristics that make Singapore difficult for Verstappen are the same traits that define most street circuits: narrow racing lines, heavy kerbs, little room for error, and track surfaces that evolve unpredictably across a night-race weekend. Verstappen described the challenge to CNBC in 2022: “It is a very tough track just because it’s a street circuit… and you have to always leave a bit more margin than on a normal track. Normally, it’s one of the tougher or toughest ones on the calendar.” With the Singapore Grand Prix scheduled for October in 2026, Verstappen will have another opportunity to tick this track off the list, though Red Bull’s difficult start under the new regulations makes victory at any circuit a challenge this season.