Formula One: Red Bull’s Verstappen slams Las Vegas Grand Prix for being ‘99 per cent show, one per cent sporting event’
- Verstappen is not feeling ‘a lot of emotions’ ahead of the event and did not attend the party following the opening ceremony
- The Dutch driver finds the Vegas strip ‘not very interesting’ and admits he is ‘not looking forward to’ Sunday’s race
Formula One world champion Max Verstappen blasted this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix as “99 per cent show” and said he isn’t looking forward to the race.
The Red Bull three-time world champion criticised the new street course and said on Wednesday he had no interest in the fanfare around the event.
“It’s 99 per cent show and one per cent sporting event,” the Dutchman said, when asked to evaluate the return of the sport to Vegas after a 41-year absence.
“Not a lot of emotions to be honest. I mean I don’t like … I just want to always focus on the performance side of things, I don’t like all the things around it anyway,” he said.
“I know of course there are some places that you know [it is] part of it, but let’s say it’s not my interest,” he added.
Asked for his opinion on the street track, which will take the drivers down the famous Vegas ‘strip’, Verstappen was blunt.