Max Verstappen flies to Dubrovnik ahead of Spanish Grand Prix rebound

Max Verstappen flew from Ajaccio to Dubrovnik on June 11, 2026, a 1-hour 6-minute hop in his Dassault Falcon 900EX (PH-DTF). The flight arrives the same week Verstappen prepares to return to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for the Spanish Grand Prix, ten years after his maiden Formula 1 win there.

The trip comes days after Verstappen’s early retirement from the Monaco Grand Prix, where an engine issue stalled his Red Bull on the formation lap. “The engine just dropped dead,” he told Sky Sports F1, per a motorsport.com report. Red Bull confirmed the power unit was scheduled for replacement after Monaco, as covered by PlanetF1.com. Verstappen now heads to Barcelona with “unfinished business,” he said in a grandprix247.com interview.

The Dubrovnik stop is a brief detour from Verstappen’s usual race-week routine. His recent flight history shows frequent hops between southern France, the Netherlands, and Germany, often linking his Monaco base with Red Bull’s factory or race circuits. This week, a short Adriatic pause precedes a weekend that will test whether Red Bull’s upgrades have truly closed the gap to the front.