{"id":73597,"date":"2025-08-16T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73597\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:49:09","slug":"verstappen-beats-99-percent-of-f1-fans-in-red-bull-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73597\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen beats 99 percent of F1 fans in Red Bull quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> grew up around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a>. His father, Jos, was a Formula 1 driver, and Verstappen himself has become a four-time world champion. In a video from Red Bull , the Dutchman took on a challenge to answer questions ranging from easy to difficult.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/yuki-tsunoda\" title=\"Yuki Tsunoda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Tsunoda<\/a> posed ten questions to Verstappen, starting with ones that roughly 90 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> fans could answer correctly, up to the tenth question, which only about 1 percent would get right.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/si202508021909.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto\" alt=\"Verstappen Hungary\"\/>Verstappen beats F1 fans in Red Bull Racing quiz<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen took on the challenge, and successfully. The first question was easy: \u2018How many drivers are currently on the Formula 1 grid\u2019. The Dutchman answered this question correctly.<\/p>\n<p>He had more difficulty with question 3 when he was asked about the trio who most frequently stood on the podium together. He ultimately answered this question correctly: Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, with a few tips, Verstappen made it to the question that only 1 percent of Formula 1 fans would be able to answer.<\/p>\n<p>This question was: \u2018How long was the shortest Formula 1 career, in meters?\u2019 After a few wrong answers, the <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> driver guessed the answer: 800 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen enjoys vacation<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen is currently on vacation. After a trip to Portugal, the Dutchman arrived this week on the Italian island Sardinia.<\/p>\n<p>Here, apart from the Red Bull Racing driver, a number of other drivers were present and even the Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff was there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/breaking-news\/confirmed-wolff-and-verstappen-really-met-in-italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Verstappen had even met the Austrian on a superyacht, but it was for friendly maintenance.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/f1-drivers-standings-update-norris-reignites-the-title-fight-as-verstappen-drops-further-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In Formula 1, Verstappen is currently in third place in the championship<\/a>, 97 and 88 points behind the McLaren drivers, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. George Russell sits in fourth place, fifteen points behind the Dutchman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen grew up around Formula 1. His father, Jos, was a Formula 1 driver, and Verstappen himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-73597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597","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=73597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}