{"id":343425,"date":"2025-12-13T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/343425\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:14:08","slug":"best-f1-driver-i-can-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/343425\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Best F1 driver I can remember\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Ecclestone<\/a> has penned a special Christmas message to Max Verstappen<\/a> following the conclusion of the 2025 campaign.\u201c…the best Formula 1 driver I can ever remember.”\u00a0– Bernie Ecclestone\u00a0The former F1<\/a> supremo, in his letter shared via F1 Insider, lauded the Red Bull Racing<\/a> driver while also touching on the McLaren<\/a> team resurgence, American president Donald Trump, and the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year marks 75 years since the start of Formula One,” Ecclestone wrote.<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen many world changes plus a few in Formula One, from bye bye Christian [Horner] to catching up with Max, the best Formula 1<\/a> driver I can ever remember.” <\/p>\n

\u201cMcLaren back to their old ways thanks to Zak [Brown]. Toto [Wolff] waking up and Lewis [Hamilton] suffering a bit with an uncompetitive team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Max Verstappen on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix podium – Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump running the world with no competition except gentlemen who lack an important part of their body. Well done, Donald.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking further to 2026, Ecclestone added in his letter: \u201c2026 will not be a peaceful year for Formula 1, and the world is also looking for peace. So take a few quids at the end of 2025. At 95 and with a five-year-old inquisitive son, I can’t follow my own advice! Do your best at whatever you are doing,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Ecclestone, who was the founder of the Formula 1 Group, has often been vocal about several topical issues across the sport and only recently weighed in on McLaren\u2019s bias towards Lando Norris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Verstappen, on his part, recorded a remarkable 2025 season highlighted by the resurgence that he and the Red Bull Racing outfit put up in the drivers\u2019 championship fight.<\/p>\n

Verstappen wins FIA award\u00a0Verstappen was awarded the prize for the Action of the Year in the F1 category at the recent FIA Gala<\/a> in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.The four-time world champion\u2019s overtaking move on Oscar Piastri earned him the prize ahead of Lando Norris<\/a> and Oliver Bearman.Catch up with GPblog\u2019s Latest Paddock Update\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the post-2025 season finale action and reaction continuing, our paddock update is the place to be.<\/p>\n

Follow our channels on YouTube and Spotify to stay up to date with all the happenings as they unfold following the final Grand Prix of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Check out the latest episode of our paddock update here \ud83d\udc47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernie Ecclestone has penned a special Christmas message to Max Verstappen following the conclusion of the 2025 campaign.\u201c…the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[5180,49,48,578,28673,576,577,591,1885,590,2190,82,4503],"class_list":["post-343425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-bernie-ecclestone","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mclaren","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports","tag-toto-wolff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343425","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=343425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}