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verstappen on british media not being behind him

Verstappen: 'Not everyone is behind me because F1 is full of Brits'

6 July at 07:31
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  • Ludo van Denderen

Max Verstappen is anything but worried about what people think of him, positive or negative. However, there many many opinions around, especially since 'The Incident' with Lando Norris a week ago in Austria. Especially from Britain - not for the first time in his F1 career- criticism of Verstappen's driving style resounded.

According to Verstappen, the latter is due to the fact that seven of the ten F1 teams are based in England and the vast majority of the media is British. A British bias towards Verstappen - a Dutchman and therefore not British - is thus easily fed. "80 to 85 per cent of the press in Formula 1 is English," Verstappen tells the Daily Mail on why not everyone is behind him.

"So you have quite a dominant force with that. In the back of their minds, most would prefer their national driver to do well or in the case of an incident naturally pick the side of their countryman. Ex-drivers, most of them are British, so it’s a bit of a one-sided affair."

Verstappen is not worried about the British

Verstappen is not at all concerned about this, he reveals in the British newspaper. "With the way I grew up, these kind of things won’t unsettle me. For me, these are quite minor disturbances. I know how to focus on the race and how to get the best performance out of myself, even with what might be going on in the background," said the three-time World Champion.

This article was written in collaboration with Olly Darcy