{"id":92421,"date":"2025-12-01T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/verstappen-accepts-chucky-from-brown-f1-rivalry-in-abu-dhabi-final-climax\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:59:42","slug":"verstappen-accepts-chucky-from-brown-f1-rivalry-in-abu-dhabi-final-climax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/verstappen-accepts-chucky-from-brown-f1-rivalry-in-abu-dhabi-final-climax\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen Accepts &#8220;Chucky&#8221; from Brown: F1 Rivalry in Abu Dhabi Final Climax"},"content":{"rendered":"Red Bull&#8217;s star driver, Max Verstappen, has responded to McLaren CEO Zak Brown&#8217;s statements with a touch of humor. Brown compared the reigning champion&#8217;s tenacity in the fight for the title to a horror movie character.\n\nBrown made the analogy before the Qatar Grand Prix, highlighting Verstappen&#8217;s ability to stay in the fight for the championship. These words proved prophetic, as Verstappen won Sunday&#8217;s race, moving up to second place in the overall standings.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s like that guy in a horror movie, just when you think he&#8217;s not coming back, he&#8217;s back!<\/p><cite>Zak Brown<\/cite><\/blockquote>\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 de la \u00faltima carrera de la temporada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nVerstappen&#8217;s victory in Qatar puts him as Lando Norris&#8217; closest rival in the fight for the title, only 12 points behind the McLaren driver, before the season finale in Abu Dhabi.\n\nWhen asked about Brown&#8217;s words, Verstappen referenced the famous horror film franchise &#8220;Child&#8217;s Play&#8221; and its iconic main character.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Call me Chucky!<\/p><cite>Max Verstappen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe reigning champion also commented on his approach to the final race of the season.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I hope we start the weekend well, so to speak, that would help a lot. I think in terms of pure pace, it will be difficult, but a race like today also shows that it is not always easy, a Grand Prix, and many things can happen. So I probably rely on that a bit.<\/p><cite>Max Verstappen<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull&#8217;s star driver, Max Verstappen, has responded to McLaren CEO Zak Brown&#8217;s statements with a touch of humor. Brown compared the reigning champion&#8217;s tenacity in the fight for the title to a horror movie character. Brown made the analogy before the Qatar Grand Prix, highlighting Verstappen&#8217;s ability to stay in the fight for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[657,443,177,690],"class_list":{"0":"post-92421","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-mclaren","11":"tag-qatar"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92421","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=92421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}