{"id":9500,"date":"2023-11-16T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/9500\/max-verstappen-says-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:27:28","slug":"max-verstappen-says-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=9500","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen says Las Vegas GP is 1 percent sport, 99 percent show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen says Las Vegas GP is 1 percent sport, 99 percent show\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Laurence Edmondson, F1 editor<span class=\"timestamp \">November 16, 2023, 6:22 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\u2022 Joined ESPN in 2009<br \/>\u2022 F1 journalist accredited by the FIA \u200b\u200bsince 2011<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Max Verstappen called this weekend&#8217;s Las Vegas Grand Prix &#8220;99 percent spectacle and 1 percent sporting event&#8221; after Wednesday&#8217;s opening ceremony on the street circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The race, which will take place on Saturday evening, has been compared to the Super Bowl by Formula 1 executives, who are also the event&#8217;s promoters.<\/p>\n<p>The hype leading up to the race weekend culminated with an opening ceremony on Wednesday evening, featuring Kylie Minogue and John Legend.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Max-Verstappen-says-Las-Vegas-GP-is-1-percent-sport.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The drivers were then presented in front of the main grandstand on five stages along the pit straight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me you can skip that,\u201d Verstappen said of the ceremony.  &#8220;We&#8217;re right there, looking like a clown. I mean, yeah&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he had shared his opinions on racing with F1, Verstappen replied: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I guess they always make money whether I like it or not, so that is not mine!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m not going to pretend either, I always express my opinion on positive and negative things. That&#8217;s how I am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people like the show a little more, I don&#8217;t like it at all. I grew up just watching the performance side of things and that&#8217;s how I see it too. So for me, I like being in Vegas, but not so much for racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\"><cite>Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Verstappen went on to say that he did not expect F1 to react to drivers&#8217; opinions about the race, good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not involved, so we just do it like this,\u201d he added.  \u201cThey decide what they do, right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would do the same thing if I was an owner, I wouldn&#8217;t listen to the drivers. It&#8217;s my sport, I would do what I want with it if that was the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three-time world champion doesn&#8217;t have high hopes for the quality of racing on the new 3.8-mile street circuit, which includes a 1.2-mile straight along the famous Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of turns to be honest&#8230;I don\u2019t know,\u201d he said.  &#8220;It will also probably depend on his grip. It doesn&#8217;t look like he has a lot of grip, but we&#8217;ll go with the flow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s that <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/exciting\/\"   title=\"exciting\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">exciting<\/a>, that&#8217;s the only thing. I already think for me a street circuit is not that exciting, especially with these new cars, they&#8217;re just too heavy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have low grip it doesn&#8217;t help. The scenery will be great as you go through the track, but the track itself is not the most exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Driving an F1 car is much more fun with lots of high-speed corners, but here there aren&#8217;t many high-speed corners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen says Las Vegas GP is 1 percent sport, 99 percent show\u060c Laurence Edmondson, F1 editorNovember 16, 2023, 6:22 a.m. Close \u2022 Joined ESPN in 2009\u2022 F1 journalist accredited by the FIA \u200b\u200bsince 2011 LAS VEGAS \u2014 Max Verstappen called this weekend&#8217;s Las Vegas Grand Prix &#8220;99 percent spectacle and 1 percent sporting event&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1501,238,1808,758,5694,1502,3159],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-las","tag-max","tag-percent","tag-show","tag-sport","tag-vegas","tag-verstappen"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}