who finished third in Shanghai, his first podium with the Italian team<\/a>, offered a different view to his rival, calling the Chinese Grand Prix \u201cthe best racing I\u2019ve ever experienced in F1\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cI speak for most of the drivers \u2013 some of course will say it\u2019s great because they\u2019re winning races, which is fair enough,\u201d Verstappen continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have an advantage, why would you give that up, right? Because you never know if you\u2019re going to have a good car again. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut if you just speak to most of the drivers, it\u2019s not what we like, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s what the real F1 fans like. Maybe some fans like it, but they don\u2019t understand racing. <\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully we can get rid of this as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen also pointed out that he criticised the new regulations when they were first proposed in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately they did what they did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLesson for the future \u2013 that this would never happen again, that would be great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if he could appreciate the new style of racing appealed to the sport\u2019s casual fans, Verstappen responded: \u201cI hope they don\u2019t think like that. Because it will eventually ruin the sport. It will come and bite them back in the ass.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alonso retires with vibration issues | 00:23<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, veteran driver Fernando Alonso, who described this season as \u201cthe battery world championship\u201d, has continued struggling with Honda engine problems in his Aston Martin.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the 44-year-old was seen taking his hands off the steering wheel on the straights due to the vibration emanating from Honda\u2019s internal combustion engine, with suggestions it has put him at risk of nerve damage. He retired on Lap 32 of the Chinese Grand Prix, revealing he lost all feeling in his hands and feet during the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cContinuing until the end of the race while losing feeling in my hands and feet didn\u2019t make much sense,\u201d Alonso said.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The vibrating) was worse today than any other session in the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were one lap behind, we were last. It was probably no point to keep on going.\u201d<\/p>\n
The F1 season resumes with the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time world champion Max Verstappen has launched into another rant about Formula 1\u2019s new regulations, blasting the \u201cterrible\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-543230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543230","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=543230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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