Max Verstappen claims his friends enjoy watching back his controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi GP win over Lewis Hamilton

Max Versstappen has proved to be the most dominant F1 driver since the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP.

Max Verstappen claims his friends enjoy watching back his controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi GP win over Lewis Hamilton

Max Verstappen (Credits: GP Blog) and Lewis Hamilton (Credits: Autosport)

Max Verstappen has been on an extremely dominant run in F1 since winning his first World Championship at the end of the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP. While the race is remembered for its out-of-the-blue shenanigans, Verstappen has recently made it known that his friends enjoy watching that race on repeat.

The 2021 F1 season went down to the wire, with Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton going into the Abu Dhabi GP equal on points. A lot was at stake during the race. While it was looking that the Brit was on his way to securing his record-breaking eighth world championship, Nicholas Latifi’s crash put into motion a certain set of events that have to date, not sat well with Hamilton and his fans.

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The then FIA Race Director, Michael Masi, changed the whole landscape of the race and played a major role in helping Max Verstappen in winning the 2021 title. While the 25-year-old sees it as a thing of the past, he has revealed that his friends enjoy watching the event on repeat. He told Telegraaf.nl, “I don’t watch that back.”

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“I know I won. Usually, it’s friends who enjoy watching that back again. I don’t have much to do with it now. Maybe later, when I have stopped. In the months after that race in Abu Dhabi, I did look back a bit, but at some point, I only look forward. This season it might all look easy for the viewer, but then I am completely in that focus and am only concerned with the next race,” he added.

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Max Verstappen (Credits: Sky Sports)
Max Verstappen (Credits: Sky Sports)

While Max Verstappen has admitted that he does not spend too much time dwelling on the past, he has also made it known that he is fully focused on the task during the ongoing campaign. He is comfortably leading the Drivers Championship but, despite this fact, is determined to put his best foot forward during the second leg.

The 2023 F1 season is returning on the 25th of August at the Zandvoort F1 circuit. It is the home race of Verstappen, and considering this, he would be gunning for the victory at the least. Moreover, in the RB19, he has operated on a whole other level that the other drivers have found extremely hard to cope with.

As things stand, he has managed to amass 314 points in the season with an impressive 10 Grand Prix wins. The ongoing campaign has been all about the Max Verstappen show, and from the Dutch GP onward, his fans will expect much of the same from him.

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