{"id":601313,"date":"2026-04-12T03:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:46:17","slug":"max-verstappen-comes-to-awkward-realisation-after-daniel-ricciardo-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601313\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen comes to awkward realisation after Daniel Ricciardo conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen has come to an awkward realisation about his age after a brief chat with Daniel Ricciardo.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest driver to ever race in F1 when he made his debut in 2015 at the age of just 17, Verstappen remains the youngest to ever win a grand prix at just 18 years, 228 days at the 2016 Spanish GP.<\/p>\n<p>However, as father time moves, Verstappen is now one of the elder statesmen on the grid, aged just 28, and will turn 29 in September.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman, speaking with former Red Bull team-mate Ricciardo, realised that he is now older than the average age of the grid, just.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, all the drivers on the 2026 grid have an age of 622 years, which, divided by 22, equals 28.2.<\/p>\n<p>View the post below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has come to an awkward realisation about his age after a brief chat with Daniel Ricciardo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-601313","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-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601313","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=601313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}