The Bristol-born driver can’t afford any slips as he aims to close the gap at the top.
Away from the track, the pair live glam lives you would expect from two of the world’s best boy racers.
Verstappen, worth a reported £165million, has splashed his cash on a £5million car collection and boasts a stunning partner in Brazilian beauty, Kelly Piquet.
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While playboy Norris, the heir to a £205million fortune, enjoys a jet-set life and has dated a string of the world’s most beautiful women.
SunSport compares the champ and the challenger’s lifestyles.
Money, money, money
One thing the two aren’t short of is money.
Since making his debut in F1 in 2015, Verstappen has established himself as the highest paid driver on the circuit.
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In 2022, he signed a five-year deal with Red Bull, described as one of the most lucrative in the history of the sport.
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According to reports his contract is worth £45million a year, and is likely to increase if his winning streak continues.
Max also benefits from endorsement deals from brands like G-Star RAW, Red Bull and EA Sports.
The Dutch driver also has his own MV merchandise company, selling caps, clothing and accessories.
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Back in 2022, Norris inked a longterm deal with McLaren that will keep him with the team till 2026.
It is believed to be worth around £15million-per-year, which puts him behind Verstappen by some way.
However, he was born into wealth as the second child of businessman Adam Norris, who boasts a £205million fortune.
He grew up in Glastonbury, Somerset with his older brother Oliver and younger sisters Flo and Cisca, and went to nearby Millfield public school, where boarding fees cost more than £40,000 a year.
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Verstappen is F1’s highest paid driver on £45m-per-year
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Norris is also paid handsomely – earning around £15m-per-year
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Norris stands to inherit some of his father’s £210m fortune
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Verstappen is heavily sponsored by the likes of Red Bull and EA Sports
Fast cars
F1 drivers are renowned for their incredible car collections.
After becoming the youngest ever racer to score a podium finish at the Spanish Grand Prix, aged just 18, Max splashed out on a Porsche 911 GTS R3 worth around £190,000.
His car collection has been heavily inspired by James Bond – he owns a 007-type Aston Martin DB11, a follow-up to the DB10, driven in the movie Spectre that cost around £200,000.
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Alongside a 2018 Vantage and a DBS Superleggerais, Verstappen also reportedly bought an Aston Martin Valkyrie that carries a price tag of £2.2million.
Astonishingly, various reports say that Norris doesn’t own a car.
As is one of the perks of the job, McLaren has loaned him several over the years.
Speaking to Scott Mills and Chris Stark on their BBC Sounds podcast, however, he confessed he is not materialistic.
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Lando said: “I don’t own many things. I’ve not really treated myself.”
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Verstappen is believed to own a Aston Martin Valkyrie worth a whopping £2.2m
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A Porsche 911 GTS worth around £190k sits in Verstappen’s garage
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Ladies’ men
Notoriously, F1 drivers are linked to the world’s most beautiful women.
The break-up came months after he joked he had “many girlfriends” during a lie detector test for a Sky Sports segment.
A source told The Sun: “”Lando and Margarida had a fun time together and hung out a lot. But it wasn’t working out so they cooled off. He’s free and single and just wants to focus on his sport.”
However, she suffered death threats, forcing Lando to say: “Whether it’s about my personal life, me and my girlfriend, especially the amount of hate pages dedicated to Luisa now, it is pretty horrific.
“They are on Instagram and Twitter, they are the main ones.”
Jet set
According to reports, Verstappen lives in a £13million apartment overlooking the Mediterranean sea.
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Norris also moved to Monaco, admittedly for financial reasons, where many of his F1 rivals call home.
Verstappen shared glimpses of his home during the coronavirus pandemic, which he and Kelly also share with their two Bengal cats, Jimmy and Sass.
In his spare time he likes to take the water on a Red Bull-branded jet ski, said to be worth around £16,000.
For all his travels around the world, Max is said to have bought a Falcon-900EX private jet from Sir Richard Branson, worth £12million, which costs over £830,000 to maintain.
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Norris also loves to fly privately, sometimes bringing along his DJ decks – his favourite pastime – along for the ride.
His need for speed is also fuelled by watersports like water-skiing.
While both boast similarities in their lives, only one can be the next world champion. So, who will it be?
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Verstappen lives in a £13m Monaco home overlooking the Mediterranean sea
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Verstappen, pictured with dad Jos, also owns a private jet worth £12m
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Norris is a keen DJ and takes his decks with him when he flies privately
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Like Verstappen, Norris is keen on watersports and likes to water ski
The full card headlined by Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson for the Most Valuable Promotions event at AT&T Stadium just outside Dallas on Nov. 15 has been revealed.
Paul faces Tyson in an eight round heavyweight main event with the card airing live on Netflix for no additional cost to subscribers.
In addition to Paul vs. Tyson, a highly anticipated rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano serves as the 10-round co-main event. Taylor puts all of her super lightweight titles on the line for the rematch after winning a razor-close decision over Serrano in their first encounter.
A WBC welterweight title fight also takes place on the card as reigning champion Mario Barrios takes on Abel Ramos in a 12-round bout. The final fight rounding out the main card pits Neeraj Goyat against Whindersson Nunes in a six-round super middleweight fight.
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As for the prelims, Shadasia Green, who counts Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions as her promoter and managers, takes on undefeated contender Melinda Watpool.
Lucas Bahdi clashes with Corey Marskman in a 10-round lightweight fight between two undefeated prospects. Bruce Carrington Jr. rounds out the preliminary card when he faces Dana Coolwell.
The card airs globally on Netflix with the event kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 15.
It said Nuno, Gibbs-White and Hurzeler all admitted to their respective charges, with the punishments enforced by the independent regulatory commission.
Forest had asked for more time to prepare a response having initially been given until 27 September.
Nuno apologised for his reaction to the officials, including referee Rob Jones and fourth official Anthony Taylor, and had hoped his contrition would lead to leniency.
However, not only was the Portuguese manager given a two-match ban for this specific incident, a one-game suspended ban – for comments following Forest’s 2-0 defeat at Everton in April – was also activated.
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They came after Forest’s controversial social media post which called VAR Stuart Attwell’s integrity into question.
Umar Nurmagomedov no longer will headline ADXC 7 next week in Abu Dhabi.
The UFC bantamweight standout was set to grapple former Bellator champion Eduardo Dantas in a no-gi featherweight match Oct. 25 at Mubadala Arena. The event takes place one day before UFC 308 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, which is headlined by a featherweight title fight between champion Ilia Topuria and Max Holloway.
But Nurmagomedov (18-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) has been pulled from the event, a person with knowledge of the move told MMA Junkie on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because ADXC has not yet made the change official.
No official reason was given for Nurmagomedov’s removal from the event, but in recent weeks rumors about his next UFC fight have ramped up. Although he is gunning for a shot at new champion Merab Dvalishvili, who won the belt from Sean O’Malley at UFC 306, Nurmagomedov also has been linked to a main event in Tampa, Fla., in December against Song Yadong.
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Nurmagomedov is fresh off a main event win over Cory Sandhagen at UFC on ABC 7 in August in Abu Dhabi. The undefeated 28-year-old emerged as a title contender and was expected to be Dvalishvili’s first attempted title defense, though the champ reportedly is not yet ready to fight.
Dantas, a two-time Bellator champion, is a second degree jiu-jitsu black belt with seven wins by submission. The 35-year-old Brazilian’s most recent appearance in MMA came in May 2023 – a decision loss to Denis Lavrentyev at RCC 15.
Appropriately timed, reports of a new grappling matchup for the event surfaced Friday with former UFC flyweight standout Muhammad Mokaev against UFC young rising star Raul Rosas Jr., which certainly will take some of the sting off losing Nurmagomedov from the event for fans.
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Andrea Iannone will make a surprise MotoGP comeback replacing the injured Fabio di Giannantonio at the VR46 Ducati team for the penultimate grand prix of the 2024 season in Malaysia early next month.
As reported by GPOne, the one-time grand prix winner has received the nod from Valentino Rossi for Sepang, with the agreement of Ducati’s Gigi Dall’Igna. The Italian, who last raced in MotoGP in 2019 before a drugs ban, will head into the Malaysian round without any preparatory test.
GPOne also reported that Ducati test rider Michele Pirro will get the substitute role at the Valencia finale on 15-17 November.
Di Giannantonio announced on Thursday that he would skip the grands prix in Malaysia and Valencia in order to undergo surgery.
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This news puts paid to rumours that Ducati’s WorldSBK rider Nicolo Bugela or Ducati’s satellite SBK rider Danilo Petrucci would step into the breach at VR46.
Iannone raced seven seasons in MotoGP, including four with Ducati between 2013 and 2016, taking his only victory at the Austrian Grand Prix in that final year. After leaving the Bologna factory he raced two years with Suzuki before signing for Aprilia in 2019.
Fabio Di Giannantonio, VR46 Racing Team
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That season, at the Malaysian GP in fact, Iannone failed a doping test, which led to a four-year ban that could have spelt the end of his top-level motorcycle career.
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Having served the ban, however, he returned to WorldSBK this season with Ducati’s Go Eleven team. He took his first victory at Aragon a few weeks ago and has announced that he will remain for 2025.
The final round of the WorldSBK season takes place at Jerez this weekend. Iannone heads into the finale sitting seventh in the championship.
Di Giannantonio’s decision to undergo surgery two races before the end of the season allows the MotoGP race winner to have work done on the shoulder he injured in an accident at the Austrian GP in August.
Missing the final two rounds means he should return to full fitness for the start of the 2025 season, where he will remain with VR46 but benefit from an upgrade and ride a factory GP25 Ducati.
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