{"id":465135,"date":"2023-10-07T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465135"},"modified":"2023-10-07T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:56:26","slug":"verstappen-says-winning-3rd-title-feels-incredible","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-says-winning-3rd-title-feels-incredible\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen says winning 3rd title feels &#8216;incredible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen described the feeling of winning a 3rd consecutive title as &#8216;incredible&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman did not have it all his way on Saturday&#8217;s Sprint as the McLaren of Oscar Piastri proved too strong of a challenge. However, all Verstappen needed was P6 and with Sergio Perez premature exit, he was crowned champion before crossing the line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unbelievable guys,&#8221; said Verstappen on his cool-down lap. &#8220;I don\u2019t know what to say. An incredible year. Thank you for providing me with such a car. It\u2019s been a pleasure so far this year. I just want to say a big thank you to everyone here at the track, back at the factory for putting all the effort in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max Verstappen&#39;s World Championship celebration <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gVJ9UikSG8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gVJ9UikSG8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RBR Daily (@RBR_Daily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBR_Daily\/status\/1710722181741625512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen joins an elite club of drivers, who have won the title 3 times &#8211; Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna. And the Dutchman is only 26 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He starts from pole position for tomorrow&#8217;s race &#8211; his 10th of the year and the newly crowned champion will be looking for his 14th victory thus far, his 49th overall in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen described the feeling of winning a 3rd consecutive title as &#8216;incredible&#8217;. The Dutchman did not have it all his way on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465136,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17288,17289],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17971,17900],"acf":{"announce":"The Dutchman was full of emotions after chaotic Sprint, which eventually sealed him the title","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465138,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465135\/revisions\/465138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465135"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465135"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}