Max Verstappen has responded to the fierce criticism levelled at him by former F1 driver-turned-pundit, Juan Pablo Montoya.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
After the Miami Grand Prix, Montoya claimed that F1 should “park” Verstappen and that it should “add seven points to the licence, eight points to the licence. Whatever you do after, you’re going to be parked. I guarantee you, all the messaging would be different,” after the Red Bull driver’s fierce criticism of the F1 technical regulations.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As in his driving career, Montoya is never shy to offer an opinion, but in responding to the Colombian’s comments, Verstappen labelled Montoya’s demand as “nonsense” and wondered if the two-time Indy 500 winner was saying such things to remain “relevant.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t know what his problem is. I also can\u2019t deal much with someone who talks so much nonsense,” Verstappen told de Telegraaf.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I just don\u2019t understand why people like that get paid by Formula 1 management, because he sometimes works for them.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“You wouldn\u2019t want someone like that in the paddock, spouting so much nonsense, would you?\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think it\u2019s a case of: ‘If I say something different from everyone else, then I\u2019m relevant.’\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It doesn\u2019t bother me that much; it\u2019s his problem. I live my life and don\u2019t let it affect me.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has responded to the fierce criticism levelled at him by former F1 driver-turned-pundit, Juan Pablo Montoya.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-689488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689488","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=689488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}