{"id":114500,"date":"2025-09-03T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114500\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:31:10","slug":"guenther-steiner-pinpoints-why-f1-fans-are-no-longer-booing-max-verstappen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114500\/","title":{"rendered":"Guenther Steiner pinpoints why F1 fans are no longer booing Max Verstappen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Max Verstappen took on the role of pantomime villain in Formula 1 when he started dominating in the sport, but things might have changed for the Dutchman. <\/p>\n

At the F1 75 season launch in London earlier this year, Verstappen was \u2018booed\u2019 along with Christian Horner by the 90,000 crowd<\/a> at The O2. <\/p>\n

The FIA was reportedly unhappy with the crowd reaction<\/a> at the event, given that they have been keen to stamp out any online abuse directed towards officials and people involved in motorsport. <\/p>\n

Now that Verstappen\u2019s<\/a> dominance has stopped, with the Dutchman winning just two races this season, Guenther Steiner<\/a> believes he will earn more respect from those outside of his home country when speaking on the GPBlog F1 Today podcast. <\/p>\n

\"RedPhoto by Jay Hirano\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty ImagesGuenther Steiner says Max Verstappen no longer getting booed because he\u2019s in inferior car<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that everyone wants to see F1 competitive, which means not having the same winners each race weekend that makes the outcome of the championship predictable. <\/p>\n

Although McLaren are winning every race this season, there is a close battle between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. This was not the case at Red Bull, where Verstappen ran away with title success in 2023. <\/p>\n

Fans would be quick to point out that the car was behind Verstappen\u2019s success, but he\u2019s still pulling results in a car that is nowhere near the performance he had in 2023. Steiner believes this will benefit his perception among non Dutch-speaking fans in the long run. <\/p>\n

Steiner: \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing that nobody can stay dominating. When Lewis won for how many years? For seven, eight years of Mercedes domination, people were getting bored. Red Bull had a few years, and now it\u2019s time for McLaren.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s good for Max as well that he doesn\u2019t have the best car, that he has to fight for it, because then we see they are getting the best out of him. Max enjoys a fight; otherwise, he\u2019d be known as the guy who won the championships in a dominant car. It isn\u2019t worth as much as when you have to fight for something. He has won races this year in a car which isn\u2019t the best car out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Host: \u201cI think you saw last year there was some booing during 2023 because he won everything\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Steiner: \u201cThe booing has stopped because they know he can win in an inferior car.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Red Bull driver Max Verstappen\u2019s life outside F1 from net worth to girlfriend<\/a><\/p>\n

Fans warm to Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton<\/p>\n

What Steiner is describing can also be applied to the other two most recent multiple world champions: Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. <\/p>\n

Hamilton was also on the receiving end of boos and jeering from crowds at the height of Mercedes\u2019 dominance in F1, who claimed that it \u201cfuelled\u201d him during the title battle with Verstappen. <\/p>\n

Vettel was also booed because he ignored team orders at Red Bull, notably when he overtook Mark Webber in the infamous \u2018Multi 21\u2019 incident at the 2013 Malaysian GP<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It was only later in their respective careers that both drivers were celebrated by fans, with Hamilton now going to Monza in front of the Tifosi as a Ferrari driver when they once booed him for winning at their home race. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen took on the role of pantomime villain in Formula 1 when he started dominating in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,3552,825,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-114500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-guenther-steiner","14":"tag-max-verstappen","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}