{"id":377446,"date":"2025-12-29T04:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377446\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T04:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:36:15","slug":"verstappens-the-max-show-picked-as-the-best-f1-performance-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377446\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen&#8217;s &#8220;The Max Show&#8221; picked as the best F1 performance of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/guenther-steiner\" title=\"Guenther Steiner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guenther Steiner<\/a> picked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a>&#8216;s Brazil comeback as the best performance of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> season.&#8221;I will go with Brazil. The Max show.&#8221;- Guenther SteinerFor the first time in his career, Verstappen was eliminated from Q1 purely on pace at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. The Dutchman qualified only 16th, and eventually started from the pit lane after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/red-bull-racing\" title=\"Red Bull Racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull Racing<\/a> made changes to his power unit and setup.<\/p>\n<p>After starting from the pit lane, Verstappen could stepped onto the final spot of the podium after finishing just behind Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n<p>Former Haas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> team boss Steiner also enjoyed the Red Bull driver&#8217;s &#8216;all-time&#8217; performance that Sunday.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brazil-gp-podium-2025-694fca9a84211.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"brazil-gp-podium-2025\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen on the podium with Norris and Antonelli at the Sao Paulo GP &#8211; Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n<p>He said on The Red Flags Podcast: &#8220;I will go with Brazil. The Max show. I quite liked that one. They have really shown, starting from pit lane and moving that far up, that was pretty cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Yes, [Verstappen can make a bad race good]. That race was lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palmer also agrees with SteinerIn his end-of-season &#8216;awards&#8217;, F1 TV analyst Jolyon Palmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/max-verstappen-was-the-best-in-2025-no-doubt-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">also picked Verstappen&#8217;s Interlagos performance<\/a> as the best one of the 2025 Formula 1 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Briton chose the Dutchman over world champion Lando Norris as the best driver of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest episode of GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update below!<\/p>\n<p>Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the F1 paddock? Then GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog&#8217;s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to follow F1 Paddock Update on Spotify as well!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guenther Steiner picked Max Verstappen&#8216;s Brazil comeback as the best performance of the 2025 Formula 1 season.&#8221;I will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,152821,817,35119,813,816,3552,155485,825,946,85],"class_list":["post-377446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brazilian-grand-prix","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-guenther-steiner","tag-interlagos","tag-max-verstappen","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377446","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=377446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}