Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan hadari a gwajin pre-season ta direba na yau da kullun JJ Lehto (wanda ya karye kashin baya), Verstappen ya tuka a farkon tsere biyu na kakar a matsayin mai maye gurbin, abokin tarayya Michael Schumacher kuma ya fara fitowa a gasar Formula One a gasar Grand Prix ta Brazil ta 1994. A lokacin tseren ya yi karo da Eddie Irvine, wanda ya haifar da haɗari da yawa wanda ya shafi Éric Bernard da Martin Brundle. Motar Verstappen ta yi juyi, amma bai ji rauni ba. A Pacific Grand Prix Verstappen ya gudu na shida amma ya juya a kan taya mai sanyi nan da nan bayan tsayawa. Lehto ya kasance a shirye don tseren na gaba a Imola
, amma wasan kwaikwayonsa a tseren da suka biyo baya ya zama abin takaici kuma Benetton ya huta bayan Grand Prix na Kanada, yana ba Verstappen damar komawa kujerar tseren.