The final Drivers\u2019 and Constructors\u2019 Championship standings<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThat was an early Christmas present for me,\u201d Verstappen told Viaplay.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt at least made it a bit more exciting. Otherwise you wouldn\u2019t have talked about Abu Dhabi being so close.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Formula 1, I think it was positive \u2013 and for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Red Bull driver, though, reckons there would be more disqualifications after grands prix were Bauer\u2019s team to put every car that completes the race through an extensive test.<\/p>\n
Although every car is weighed, not all the skidblocks are measured which gives teams some scope to run under the limits and just hope that at the end of the race they aren\u2019t called for testing.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, you always try to find the limit. We all do,\u201d Verstappen explained. \u201cAnd sometimes you get away with it\u2026 you\u2019re not always checked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you check that every race, then half of them are definitely under.\u201d<\/p>\n
But more extensive testing would mean more technical personnel would have to travel to every grand prix. As such Verstappen concedes it is not possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he said, \u201cthen you\u2019d need a lot of people; that\u2019s just not possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
The randomness of the FIA\u2019s checks were called out in the immediate aftermath of McLaren\u2019s double disqualification with Alex Albon claiming it opened the door for teams to run illegal cars.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean,\u201d he told PlanetF1.com and other accredited media, \u201cwe could run these things to the deck if we wanted to and have no legality issues, but then we\u2019re all finding illegal performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the main thing for me is, I don\u2019t like that it\u2019s random. I\u2019d almost rather have 20 cars get checked every weekend and then you\u2019d have a fair game, but it\u2019s that randomly selected version that\u2019s a bit tricky.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yeah, I mean rules are rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read next: Christian Horner \u2018risk\u2019 rejected as Red Bull boss breaks silence on sack decision<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen claims that if the FIA were to check all 20 cars after a grand prix, Jo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,837,813,816,818,825,44,17165,85],"class_list":["post-364428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-fia","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-max-verstappen","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364428","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=364428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}