{"id":343231,"date":"2025-12-12T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343231\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:45:09","slug":"max-verstappen-to-miss-lando-norris-f1-trophy-lift-with-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343231\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen to miss Lando Norris’ F1 trophy lift with illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen<\/a> will miss the FIA’s end-of-season trophy presentation due to illness, Red Bull has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Verstappen, who was supposed to attend as season runner up, will not be there as Lando Norris<\/a> collects the Formula 1 world championship trophy at the event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Friday.<\/p>\n

Norris ended Verstappen’s run of four straight championships at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, finishing two points clear of the Red Bull driver.<\/p>\n

Technically Verstappen was bound to attend the gala under the FIA sporting guidelines, which says Formula 1’s top three drivers’ championship finishers have to be there.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton<\/a> was fined \u20ac50,000 for no-showing in 2021 after finishing runner-up to Verstappen at that year’s controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where race director Michael Masi ignored F1’s rulebook to force a Safety Car restart at the end of the race.<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen won’t be in Uzbekistan to watch Lando Norris lift his F1 championship trophy.\u00a0Mark Thompson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“He is unwell and will not be able to attend,” a Red Bull spokesperson told ESPN about Verstappen.<\/p>\n

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The FIA has not yet confirmed to ESPN whether Verstappen will also be fined for not attending this year.<\/p>\n

Norris’ teammate Oscar Piastri<\/a> will attend Friday’s gala, having finished the season third, as will McLaren CEO Zak Brown and team boss Andrea Stella as the team is awarded the constructors’ championship trophy.<\/p>\n

Although it is a Formula 1 trophy, the championship series is run by the governing FIA.<\/p>\n

The FIA’s sporting code says trophies cannot be given out until the prize giving gala, where all the champions from FIA competitions gather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen will miss the FIA’s end-of-season trophy presentation due to illness, Red Bull has confirmed. Verstappen, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-343231","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343231","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=343231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}