Though Max Verstappen has been dominating F1 week in and week out, he isn’t completely happy about his present dominance. The explanation for a similar is the adjustments Liberty Media have dropped at the game ever since they took over again in 2017. After criticizing F1’s dash race format for many of final yr, Verstappen has now taken one other swipe on the calendar. He isn’t pleased with the introduction of extra road races and prefers the normal form of circuits like Imola.
Whereas talking throughout the Emilia Romagna GP this weekend, Verstappen said (as quoted by motorsport.com), “We go to numerous tracks that don’t actually excite me”. Nevertheless, when it got here to circuits like Imola, he added,
“That is unbelievable. There are just a few old-school tracks that we now have remaining on the calendar and that’s additionally what I fell in love with once I began racing and watching F1. We’d like extra of these”.
Contemplating that Verstappen is old-school, he’s unlikely to understand F1’s plans for the longer term. With F1 having confirmed that the Madrid Grand Prix might be added from the 2026 season onwards, there are speculations that Barcelona might be eliminated.
This plan is more likely to irk Verstappen because the Madrid observe is a hybrid circuit. In the meantime, the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona featured a standard observe, one which Verstappen prefers over hybrid and road circuits.
Nevertheless, these are usually not the one considerations the Dutchman has raised. Final yr, the 26-year-old not solely criticized F1’s choice to host extra dash races but in addition slammed their choice to host a Grand Prix in Las Vegas.
Max Verstappen sad with F1’s trajectory
Though increasingly more drivers have come to understand the dash race format over time, having criticized it earlier, Max Verstappen remains to be not considered one of them. Verstappen doesn’t perceive the purpose of holding a shortened race after which an extended race as doing so will destroy the unpredictability that can come up by holding simply the principle Grand Prix on Sunday.
When requested to share his ideas on the dash race format final yr, the Dutchman didn’t maintain again in his criticisms. He made it clear that he doesn’t like F1 bringing adjustments to the game repeatedly as different sports activities don’t change the principles so usually.
He then went on to assert that making such adjustments is all about “making as a lot cash as potential”. When requested what sort of a race weekend would he choose, Verstappen replied, “Only a regular race weekend, please, thanks. I’m not eager about any change. I don’t prefer it”.
Nevertheless, Verstappen’s criticisms in opposition to F1 had been removed from over. He was arguably probably the most pissed off throughout the pre-race and post-race reveals on the Las Vegas GP final yr.
Verstappen referred to the Las Vegas GP as one which featured 1% of sport and 99% of a show. When requested what did he make of the pre-race ceremony, he replied, “We’re simply standing up there, wanting like a clown”.
The Crimson Bull driver then additionally had related remarks when requested whether or not he loved driving in Las Vegas or not. Verstappen replied that the racing in Las Vegas will not be good because it incorporates a road circuit and he isn’t a fan of them.
Nevertheless, a lot to the shock of everybody, Verstappen’s temper did appear to alter after he received the race. After celebrating on the rostrum, he sang, “Viva Las Vegas“.
