{"id":165755,"date":"2025-12-03T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165755\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:02:07","slug":"f1-live-oscar-piastri-replaced-at-abu-dhabi-gp-as-red-bull-axe-driver-f1-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165755\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 LIVE: Oscar Piastri replaced at Abu Dhabi GP as Red Bull axe driver | F1 | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jos Verstappen has hailed his son Max Verstappen<\/a> and believes that it is only now that people are beginning to understand how special the Red Bull driver really is.<\/p>\n

Jos told Formule 1 Magazine: “Max is increasingly showing how special he is. And he’s still just a sweetheart. I mean it sincerely. Max is very pleasant company. And you know what’s most important: he’s down to earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Max walks into the paddock, he still greets those who were there for him ten years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cBelieve me, there are people who walk through the paddock very differently… Max is just himself and very normal.<\/p>\n

“People are now realising how special Max is; thanks in part to him, Formula 1 has gained a bit more life this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause without Max, the championship would be a bit duller.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it has something extra, because Max is in it. You see that with other teams too: They don’t take Red Bull into account, they take Max into account.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can imagine there’s some nervousness at McLaren, because this might be both drivers’ only chance at a world title.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know if you’ll find yourself in that position again, right? But it’s like Max says: you either become champion or you don’t. If it doesn’t work out, we’ll try again next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jos Verstappen has hailed his son Max Verstappen and believes that it is only now that people are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[107922,4752,107924,108276,108273,108277,106203,3520,108274,108275,3515,108272,4260,3513,3516,111,139,69,7214,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-165755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-abu-dhabi-grand-prix","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-section","11":"tag-f1-highlights","12":"tag-f1-latest","13":"tag-f1-live-stream","14":"tag-f1-news","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-f1-table","17":"tag-f1-title-fight","18":"tag-formula-1","19":"tag-formula-one","20":"tag-lando-norris","21":"tag-lewis-hamilton","22":"tag-max-verstappen","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-oscar-piastri","27":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}