During a Red Bull event during the 2024 Formula 1 Monte Carlo GP, Max Verstappen answered sincerely to an unusual question by admitting his preference for Ferrari: an answer that left Sergio Perez at his side on stage stunned. The video that has gone viral makes the fans of the Maranello team dream.
Max Verstappen he never proves banal not only when he takes to the track but also when he finds himself speaking in public. Yet another confirmation of this has arrived during a Red Bull event organized in Monte Carlo during the 2024 Formula 1 Monaco GP weekend to which he arrives as leader of the World Championship. And the three-time world champion he doesn’t get upset even when he finds himself answering an unusual question that could have put him in difficulty.
Yes, because Max Verstappen had no problem answering the uncomfortable question”Apart from the Dutch anthem, what other anthem would you prefer to hear on the podium?“, doing it sincerely and leaving diplomacy aside. “When I don’t win I joyfully listen to the Italian anthem on the podium. On the podium it’s not nice not to win, but if I don’t win and hear the Italian anthem it’s beautiful” said the 26 year old from Hasselt giving a small disappointment to both Red Bull and teammate Sergio Perez who at that moment was at his side on the stage set up in Monte Carlo.
He could have responded diplomaticallyquoting the Austrian anthem of the team with which he entered the history of Formula 1 by winning, so far, three consecutive world titles, or the Mexican anthem of his teammate, and instead the Dutchman admitted that ultimately in the races in which he fails to win he prefers a Ferrari driver to triumph (the only case in which the Italian anthem resonates on the podium of a Formula 1 GP).
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And Sergio Perez’s face, left speechless, once he realized the meaning of the answer just given by Max Verstappen is the clearest proof of how unexpected the Dutch champion’s admission was. An admission that, with the video immediately went viral on social networksinstead made the fans of the Maranello team dream and behind those words they saw the desire of the current ruler of F1 to wear red one day.
