F1 celebrated its first race in Las Vegas since 1982 with a lavish opening ceremony which featured appearances from all 20 drivers, as well as performances&🐲nbsp;from big-name music artists. 

But three-time 🃏world champion Verstappen was not impressed by the pre-race eꦉvent and said the drivers ‘looked like clowns’. 

"For me, you can skip this.♔ We are just standing up there, looking like a clown,” Verstappen said, referring to the drivers being presented to the crowd on raised platforms along the main strai𝔉ght. 

Verstap🏅pen added: “I don’t like all the things around it. I’m looking forward to trying to do the best I can but I’m not looking forward to this.”

Asked if he would share his opinions on the race with F1, the Dutchman replied: "I don't know, I ꩲguess they still make money if I like it or not, so it's not up to me!

"But I'm also not going t🔴o fake it, I just alwaysꦇ voice my opinion on positive things and negative things. That's just how I am.

"Some people like the show a bit more, I don't like it at all. I grew up just looking at the performance side of thing🧔s and that's how I see it as 🌃well. So for me, I like to be in Vegas, but not so much for racing.”

McLaren’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris echoed a similar view to Verstappen, calling F1 “definitely more of a show now tha▨n what it was a few years agoജ.

“To be honest I jus🦋t want to come here and drive and race, I’ve never been the biggest fan of doing these types of things like we did earlier. 

“It’s not what I enjoy doing. I know a lot of this stuff is just part ꧒of it and I’m not saying anything against it. 

“Buꦗt I do this job because I w𓄧ant to come and drive and race cars. I don’t simply enjoy doing these kinds of big events and shows and things like that. 

“But it's part of the🌄 job and it’s a business and that’s h🌼ow it has to run at the end of the day.”

And Verstappen had nothing positive to say about the br🔯and-new street circuit either. 

"There's not many corners to be honest... I don't know," he said. "It also will depend a bit probab𒈔ly on how grippy it is. Doesn'💝t look like it has a lot of grip, but we'll go with the flow.

"I don't think it's that exciting, that's the only thing. I think already for me a street circuit is not that 🍬exciting, esp💃ecially with these new cars, they are just too heavy.

"When you have low grip that doesn't help. The scenery will look great, driving throug🌸h the strip, but the layout itself is not the most exciting.

"Driving an F1 car is a lot more fun with💫 a lot of high-spee🐼d corners, but around here there is not many high-speed corners.”