Verstappen \u201clost interest\u201d in F1<\/a> when his on-track results were not successful.<\/p>\nAsked if he agreed with Marko\u2019s verdict, Verstappen told media including RacingNews365: \u201cNo, I don’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s more enjoyable coming to the race weekends like this than knowing that you don’t have a chance to win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I know for myself that when I sit in the car, I will always try to maximise everything that I have, and I give it everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo even if I’m fighting for P4 or even a P9, I will always try to get the best out of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI will be happy or not happy with certain results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen entered a non-F1 race in September, winning a four-hour endurance race at the famous Nordschleife track.<\/p>\n
The four-time champion asserted his entry to the race had nothing to do with being disengaged from F1 amid Red Bull’s difficult stretch.<\/p>\n
\u201cAllowing me to do other stuff, this has been planned already for a long time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it’s not that this has suddenly come on the radar, because these things have to be planned well in advance, and the preparation for it as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt allowed me this year to compete in real life, that was the first opportunity. But I’ve been doing this also online a lot, even racing during the F1 weekends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there’s nothing really that \u00a0has changed in terms of how professional I approach my race weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has denied he \u201clost interest\u201d in F1 amid Red Bull’s slump in form earlier in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-236291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236291","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=236291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}