{"id":309804,"date":"2025-08-01T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309804\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:27:12","slug":"max-verstappen-facing-fia-investigation-for-bizarre-towel-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309804\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen facing FIA investigation for bizarre towel incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen has been placed under investigation following a bizarre incident during second practice, ahead of this weekend&#8217;s Hungarian Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman was spotted throwing a small towel outside his cockpit on the inside of Turn 3, with him to visit the stewards after the session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen pulled to the inside of the corner exit and slowed down considerably, before lifting up and throwing what appeared to be a small towel of some sort.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was not captured where the small towel landed, with him to be investigated for throwing something outside of the cockpit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the incident, the four-time world champion found himself 14th on the timesheets and 1.1 seconds adrift of Lando Norris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has been placed under investigation following a bizarre incident during second practice, ahead of this weekend&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[859,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-racing","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114954688623810774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}