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Verstappen doesn't believe F1 can produce Champions League-style shocks
Bobby Vincent
Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen does not believe that Formula 1 can produce the sort of shocks that the UEFA Champions League has done in the past few days.
On Tuesday, Liverpool overturned a 3-0 deficit to progress to the final of the competition against Barcelona. On Wednesday night, Tottenham Hotspur replicated their Premier League rivals and scored a final minute goal to overturn another three-goal deficit to beat Ajax.
Verstappen said he was supporting Dutch club Ajax, who were knocked out by Spurs: "I was having dinner and I was just following it on my phone. I thought OK, that's in my pocket.
"The final few seconds was a bit dramatic, between Ajax and Tottenham. The other one I was flying but when I landed I saw the result. I'm a PSV fan but still I would have liked Ajax to win. I mean, I'm not crying, like some of my friends.
"Some of my friends were very emotional after the game. One didn't respond for an hour when I said to him 'bad luck'. He came back to em and said he was not feeling too well, I'm not that devastated but it would have been great for Ajax to be in the final."
When asked if Formula 1 could produce that level of drama, Verstappen said: "You can't. It's basically like being three laps down and suddenly the guy wins the race. It's just a dfferent sport, different things can happen, the emotion as well. It's like one that game is decisive for the rest of the championship. It's different: we are doing 21 rounds."
