{"id":273491,"date":"2025-11-10T04:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273491\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T04:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:37:18","slug":"max-verstappen-makes-feelings-clear-on-nascar-venture-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273491\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen makes feelings clear on NASCAR venture &#8211; Motorsport &#8211; Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen may be a lover of all forms of racing, but it seems that despite his appreciation for NASCAR from afar, he has no plans to tackle an oval any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull star <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/max-verstappen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Verstappen<\/a>\u2019s links with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> are well known, having previously raced alongside current Trackhouse Racing driver and three-time Supercars Championship winner, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/shane-van-gisbergen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a>, during the Covid-19 pandemic-driven iRacing days.<\/p>\n<p>This later <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/motorsport\/187378\/nascar-star-max-verstappen-personality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">led to a dinner with van Gisbergen<\/a> and soon-to-be Trackhouse teammate, and fellow Red Bull athlete, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/motorsport\/173863\/connor-zilisch-nascar-cup-series-trackhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Zilisch<\/a>, in 2024. Later that year, the Dutchman\u2019s <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/motorsport\/174096\/max-verstappen-nascar-offer-zilisch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">path crossed with Zilisch again at an event for the energy drink brand<\/a>, with Zilisch asking Verstappen, \u201cYou want to get in?\u201d to which he answered, \u201cYeah, I mean, I would like to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2025, and ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix, the reigning four-time <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/f1-autosport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Formula 1<\/a> World Champion visited with ex-F1 stars Christian Fittipaldi and Nelson Piquet Jr., along with current rival Gabriel Bortoleto, on the \u2018<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=On4yG9tvYWw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pelas Pistas<\/a>\u2019 podcast, where, among a plethora of other subjects, NASCAR was on the menu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like watching all different kinds of racing. For me, it&#8217;s just that on an oval, I don&#8217;t want to do it just for the risk of injury, you know, when you hit the fence,\u201d the 28-year-old explained.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=9761f86a-69c1-4771-b7da-6a7feddacc61&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up to our NASCAR newsletter here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not worth it, also if you have done your stuff in Formula 1, and yeah, I mean maybe you can win more there, and I mean that would be something that I would love, but it&#8217;s not worth the risk of having a really bad accident and hurting yourself really badly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I know in F1 that can happen as well, but they\u2019re hitting the wall at 370 or whatever is not something I am planning to do, but it\u2019s sometimes not even your fault, right? Anything can happen. But to sometimes avoid a little bit of the risk, if you can, I would do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a venture into NASCAR may not be on Verstappen\u2019s immediate radar, it seems he may yet be tempted to switch four wheels for two, admitting that his favorite racing to watch is MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p>DON&#8217;T MISS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I could choose anything, like let&#8217;s say if you couldn&#8217;t race on four wheels or race in general, I would say Moto GP\u2026If I had the talent,\u201d he said, later clarifying, \u201cThat is if I wouldn&#8217;t succeed in anything that I do on four wheels. I mean, you have to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 68-time Grand Prix winner noted that he does have some experience racing bikes, recalling, \u201cI raced on these like on mini bikes when I was like 8 to 12 or something. I enjoyed it a lot. I think I quickly realized that I have more talent on four wheels, but I enjoyed it, and now, still, I mean, I really love watching Moto GP. They&#8217;re crazy but like good crazy, I really like it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen may be a lover of all forms of racing, but it seems that despite his appreciation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,578,576,1885,12623,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-273491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-max-verstappen","13":"tag-motogp","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}