At the beginning of the week, Formula 1 celebrated its 75th birthday with a great launch event in which the auto designs of all ten F1 teams were unveiled at the same time. However, Red Bull Racing and world champion Max Verstappen had to take some boos, a fact that did not like the Verstappen side. Father Jos even announced consequences.
Jos Verstappen, the former Formula 1 pilot and father of the reigning world champion Max Verstappen as a whole, was “reasonable”, he said “RaceXPress.nl”, but it was “embarrassing, but it was” embarrassing, but it was “embarrassing” “It was what happened when Red Bull Racing and Christian Horner were booed.
When the dethroned world of constructors came to the stage of the big launch show in London late Tuesday evening to present the new Formula 1 racing car, Horner echoed clearly audible boos from the ranks of the O2 arena.
“An evening that Christian Horner will be forgotten,” said the newspaper “Independent” later. However, Horner was not the only one who felt the displeasure of the audience. Max Verstappen also had to endure the call.
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Months ago he had half a joke with a view of the imagination event, which in view of the 75th birthday of Formula 1 short “F1 75”, said: “I hope I’m sick during the week.”
Moderator Jack Whitehall therefore did not miss the opportunity to welcome Verstappen right from the start, Verstappen took it with a forced smile.
Verstappen father threatens boycott
“There you are there for Formula 1 to promote the sport a bit. And then you are booed by the audience,” Verstappen Senior annoyed again days later at “RaceXpress.nl” and added: “I think, I think, That is unacceptable. “
Somewhere he even understands it to Jos Verstappen: “Max is the only one who puts the English drivers under pressure and says how it is, but I think it’s unacceptable and a real disappointment what happened there.”
His son “has no desire to be booed in front of 25,000 people. He also says: If the next year is back in England, they will certainly not see me there, and I completely agree with him,” the Verstappen page interpreted a boycott to.
“If they continue, what should you do there?” Asked father Jos. “He has to prepare for it, and then you will be booed like that, and I think you should take a closer look, that doesn’t belong in this sport,” he emphasized.
Formula 1 world champion Verstappen is silent
On stage Verstappen and also his teammate Liam Lawson said – unlike their 18 F1 rivals – on Tuesday evening. Not a word about the design of the new car, no statements about the upcoming season. Red Bull Racing only let Horner say while the two drivers waved well.
Therefore, the wordless appearance of the four-time world champion caused astonishment. “Max Verstappen as a pantomime evil for the 75th birthday of the F1,” wrote the British “Guardian”.
Any controversial superstar was anyway on Tuesday evening. “The seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was received in his red Ferrari overall like a hero,” wrote “ad” from Verstappen’s home Netherlands.
As soon as the name of the now 40 -year -old record world champion fell, the fans raged. When he entered the stage in red with his team -mate Charles Leclerc and team boss Frédéric Vasseur, behind them the new Ferrari with a striking white strip, it got really loud.
“I feel so full of life and so much energy because everything is new,” said Hamilton: “I am only concentrated on what is ahead of me.”