{"id":91899,"date":"2025-11-30T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/verstappen-responds-to-brown-call-me-chucky-in-the-f1-title-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:53:10","slug":"verstappen-responds-to-brown-call-me-chucky-in-the-f1-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/verstappen-responds-to-brown-call-me-chucky-in-the-f1-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen Responds to Brown: &#8220;Call me Chucky&#8221; in the F1 Title Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"The world champion, Max Verstappen, has responded to McLaren CEO Zak Brown&#8217;s statements with a peculiar request. Brown compared the Red Bull driver&#8217;s tenacity in the fight for the title to a horror movie character.\n\nBrown made this analogy before the Qatar Grand Prix, highlighting Verstappen&#8217;s ability to stay in the fight for the championship. The comments proved prophetic, as Verstappen won Sunday&#8217;s race, moving up to second place in the overall standings.\n\nIt&#8217;s like that guy in a horror movie, just when you think he won&#8217;t come back, he&#8217;s back!\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1130%2Fr1582920_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Max Verstappen est\u00e1 a 12 puntos de Lando Norris antes del Gran Premio final de la temporada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nVerstappen&#8217;s victory in Qatar places him as the closest competitor to Lando Norris, with a difference of only 12 points before the final race in Abu Dhabi.\n\nWhen asked about Brown&#8217;s comments and whether he felt he was on the minds of McLaren&#8217;s leaders, Verstappen referenced the famous horror franchise Child&#8217;s Play and its main character.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You can call me Chucky!<\/p><cite>Max Verstappen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nVerstappen added that he found the comments quite funny and that he focuses on his own performance.\n\nThe champion&#8217;s victory in Qatar was favored by a strategic error by McLaren, who decided not to pit their cars during an early safety car period.\n\nThe result means that Verstappen&#8217;s most direct path to his fifth world title is to win the final race in Abu Dhabi, with Norris finishing fourth or below.\n\nWhen asked how he will approach the final race of the season, Verstappen commented that he hopes to have a good start to the weekend, acknowledging that pure pace will be a challenge, but that races are not always straightforward and many things can happen. Therefore, he is confident that this will play in his favor.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world champion, Max Verstappen, has responded to McLaren CEO Zak Brown&#8217;s statements with a peculiar request. Brown compared the Red Bull driver&#8217;s tenacity in the fight for the title to a horror movie character. Brown made this analogy before the Qatar Grand Prix, highlighting Verstappen&#8217;s ability to stay in the fight for the championship. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[657,443,690,3368],"class_list":{"0":"post-91899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-max-verstappen","10":"tag-qatar","11":"tag-zak-brown"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}