Max Verstappen was seen celebrating with the Red Bull crew on the popular "Du du dudu" theme after winning the 2024 F1 World Championship. His finish ahead of competitor Lando Norris in Las Vegas locked in his fourth consecutive title.
The Red Bull crew was up celebrating in Las Vegas after they won their eighth Drivers' World Championship and the fourth one for Verstappen. The entire team along with the 27-year-old was dancing to the popular "33 Max Verstappen" song. Released in 2023 from Carte Blanq, this song became the anthem for the Dutchman as he dominated the entire grid.
Funny enough, the entire team let out a huge groan as the song paused midway. Here is the clip shared on social media:
2024 wasn't the easiest season that Max Verstappen faced. Although he dominated the grid in the past two seasons, Red Bull lost that pace advantage after the Spanish Grand Prix. Verstappen did not win any of the Grands Prix for a long time. However, he remained consistent and finished regularly within the top 5, giving him the edge over his competitors.
Max Verstappen on his "incredible" fourth championship victory
The Dutchman first won the title in 2021 after a ruthless battle with Lewis Hamilton. This was followed by two seasons of rather comfortable victories, and then the challenge in 2024.
Although he managed to win, he reviewed that their pace wasn't the best in recent races.
"It’s been a long season and of course we started off amazing, it was almost like cruising, but then we had a tough run," F1 quoted Max Verstappen. But as a team, we kept it together, we kept working on improvements and we pulled off the win. Incredibly proud of everyone, what they have done for me... So at the moment I’m just feeling very relieved, in a way, but also proud."
When asked if he had thought about these accolades when he debuted in the 2015 season at the age of 17, Verstappen said:
"Definitely not! I was just happy to be there and dreaming of potential victories or standing on the podium, you know – the normal things that are already very difficult to achieve."
"Then we just got onto that run after of course a tough few years, so we kept trying and then we just hit the ground running with the new concept [in 2022] and like I said, to be standing here a four-time world champion is just incredible."
Although Verstappen won the championship, Red Bull fell down to third place in the Constructors' standings, partly because of subpar performances from Sergio Perez, Verstappen's teammate.