F1 Champion Max Verstappen Makes Shocking Health Admission Ahead of 2021 Race

Red Bull’s three-time world champion Max Verstappen says he raced with blurred vision in 2021 after a collision at the British Grand Prix with title rival Lewis Hamilton but the problem no longer bothers him.

The Dutch driver was quoted in the team’s Red Bulletin last week as saying he had suffered visibility problems during several races as he battled Mercedes driver Hamilton for the title.

The news came as a surprise and also raised some security concerns.

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“I’ve never said this before, but it was so bad for a few laps that I seriously considered turning the car off,” he said of that season’s United States Grand Prix.

The catchy quote was later deleted.

On Thursday, at the Hungarian Grand Prix, he told reporters that it would not be until 2021.

“After that it passed. I mean, it happened at the time,” said the Dutch driver.

Asked if it happened directly after the Silverstone clash, with Verstappen taken to hospital for checks after hitting the wall at high speed in a big moment of the campaign, he replied: “It didn’t happen before.