Max Verstappen will miss the FIA’s end-of-season trophy presentation due to illness, Red Bull has confirmed.<\/p>\n
Verstappen, who was supposed to attend as season runner-up, will not be there as Lando Norris collects the Formula 1 world championship trophy at the event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Friday.<\/p>\n
Norris ended Verstappen’s run of four straight championships at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, finishing two points clear of the Red Bull driver.<\/p>\n
Technically Verstappen was bound to attend the gala under the FIA sporting guidelines, which says Formula 1’s top three drivers’ championship finishers have to be there.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton was fined \u20ac50,000 for no-showing in 2021 after finishing runner-up to Verstappen at that year’s controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where race director Michael Masi ignored F1’s rulebook to force a Safety Car restart at the end of the race.<\/p>\n
“He is unwell and will not be able to attend,” a Red Bull spokesperson told ESPN about Verstappen.<\/p>\n
The FIA has not yet confirmed to ESPN whether Verstappen will also be fined for not attending.<\/p>\n
Norris’ teammate Oscar Piastri will attend Friday’s gala, having finished third, as will McLaren CEO Zak Brown and team boss Andrea Stella as the team is awarded the constructors’ championship trophy.<\/p>\n
Although it is a Formula 1 trophy, the championship series is run by the governing FIA.<\/p>\n
The FIA’s sporting code says trophies cannot be given out until the prize giving gala, where all the champions from FIA competitions gather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen will miss the FIA’s end-of-season trophy presentation due to illness, Red Bull has confirmed. Verstappen, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[2571,49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-340645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-auto-racing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340645","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=340645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}