Verstappen Just Won Two Straight. Your PS5 Hasn't Caught Up.

Two wins in a row, and a title fight that isn't over

Max Verstappen won the Singapore Grand Prix on October 11, his first victory at the Marina Bay street circuit. He took his 50th career pole position to start the race, then won the Sprint too, after George Russell went off on the opening lap. It was his second win in as many races.

That streak is the reason Red Bull is back in the conversation this late in the season. For most of the year, this looked like a championship between Mercedes drivers. Verstappen now sits fourth in the Drivers' Championship on 221 points, behind Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli on 340 and George Russell on 238. A 119-point gap to the top isn't nothing. But two wins in two races is also not nothing, and it's exactly the kind of run that turns a quiet season into one worth staying up for.

What's actually left on the calendar

The season doesn't wind down quietly from here. Five rounds remain, and every one of them is run a long way from India:

• United States GP — Austin, October 23–25
• São Paulo GP — Brazil, November 6–8
• Las Vegas GP — November 19–21
• Qatar GP — Lusail, November 27–29
• Abu Dhabi GP — Yas Marina, December 4–6 (season finale)

Texas, Brazil, Nevada, Qatar and the UAE all sit far enough from IST that most of this run-in gets watched well past midnight at home, on a weekend that already ran into Monday morning before the chequered flag dropped. Five more race weekends like that between now and early December. If you're staying up for every one of them, the setup you're staring at for five hours might as well say which side you're on.

Picking a side: the team or the driver

A device isn't just a device the moment it's actually yours, and a PS5 under the TV is no different. Subumi runs two separate designs for this exact storyline, and they read differently depending on who you're actually following.

The Red Bull Racing console skin is built around the team's livery — the bull, the navy-to-red gradient, the sponsor block running down the disc drive. It's the one for someone who follows the garage as much as any one driver, through driver changes and team orders and whatever else a season throws at it.

The Max Verstappen console skin is a different brief: his own imagery front and center, built for a fan who's in it for the driver specifically, not the constructor standings. Original fan art either way — Subumi isn't licensed by Red Bull Racing or by Verstappen's management, and nothing here claims to be official merchandise.

Both are precision-cut per PS5 edition, so the Standard Disc, Standard Digital, Slim Disc and Slim Digital each get their own exact pattern rather than one skin stretched to fit whichever console you happen to own.

The controller counts too

A console skin on its own still leaves a plain white DualSense sitting in your hand for every one of those late-night sessions. There's a matching Max Verstappen controller skin cut for the same curves and button cutouts, so the two pieces read as one setup instead of a console that got the treatment and a controller that didn't. DualSense skins across the catalogue, this one included, are priced at a flat ₹499.

What you're actually buying

Every Subumi skin is 100–120 micron bubble-free polymeric vinyl with a polymeric overlaminate on top. That overlaminate is the layer that takes the scratches and the UV — the print underneath stays protected, which matters more over a five-race run-in than it would for a skin you're putting on and never thinking about again.

Finish is high-gloss, and the cut is specific to your exact model, not a generic size stretched over whatever you own. Console skins go on cold, no heat gun required. A controller skin needs a brief low-heat step to mold around the DualSense's curved grips — a few extra minutes, nothing more complicated than that. Five steps either way, dispatched within 24 hours from India, and when it's time to sell the console on, the skin comes off clean without marking the resale value.

Following a different team through the run-in

Red Bull and Verstappen aren't the only grid presence in the shop. Subumi's Formula 1 collection covers Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and more for anyone tracking a different garage through Austin, Brazil, Vegas, Qatar and the Abu Dhabi finale — useful if the fan in your house is backing whoever's actually leading, rather than whoever just won twice in a row.

Five races, one streak that just started, and a championship that's closer to interesting than it's been in months. Whichever side of the garage you're on, there's a decent window left to make your setup match it before the season actually ends.