WATCH: Fans tussle to get the signature of Red Bulls’ Max Verstappen ahead of Friday’s Monaco running

Max Verstappen is currently the hottest driver in F1.

WATCH: Fans tussle to get the signature of Red Bulls’ Max Verstappen ahead of Friday’s Monaco running

Max Verstappen Monaco (Via: Imago, X/Nini, screenshot)

Max Verstappen, the reigning world champion, has seen a massive rise in popularity during the ongoing ground-effect era. He has won three titles consecutively since 2021 and these days, wherever he goes, to crowd seems to follow.

The official running at the 2024 Monaco GP is just a few hours away, and ahead of it, Max Verstappen has been spotted giving autographs to his fans. Moreover, the fans were seen tussling with each other just to get Verstappen’s highly sought-after signature.

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The 26-year-old has been in supreme form during the ongoing season. Out of the seven events that have taken place so far, Verstappen has already amassed five Grand Prix wins and is on course to amass a sixth in Sunday’s 78-lap race.

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Recently, Verstappen admitted that he’s expecting a challenging three-day of running in Monaco. However, keeping in view the support he has been receiving, his fans will be out in huge numbers for FP1 onward to see him triumph for a sixth time this year.

Max Verstappen urges Red Bull to operate at ‘100 percent’ capacity

While Verstappen is receiving immense support in Monaco, he has urged his team to be at the top of their game. Since Miami, Red Bull has not been able to perform at a supreme level and thus, has come under pressure from the lights of Ferrari and McLaren.

Max Verstappen (via IMAGO).
Max Verstappen (via IMAGO)

The Dutchman triumphed in the Imola event by an extremely small margin of +0.725 seconds over Lando Norris.

For sure, Monaco is always like that anyway and it will depend now who will put more performance on the car, find the best possible set-up on the car. Things have closed up which makes it of course very important to try and be at our very best, 100 percent.
Max verstappen said in an interview with Autosport

At the start of the 2024 F1 season, everyone had expected Red Bull to dominate the way did in 2023. However, that does not seem to be the case this year as the other top outfits have somewhat bridged the gap. Keeping everything in view, the 2024 Monaco GP weekend could spring up huge surprises for the fans, the pundits, and also the Milton-Keynes-based Red Bull F1 team.