US-based Liberty Media reportedly invested ove🦩r $500m in this year🅘’s inaugural Vegas Grand Prix but the event didn’t go without its issues.

Crucially, F1 champion Verstappen called it “99% show, 1% sportin🍨g evenꦬt” before storming to his 18th victory of the year.

Cou𒐪lthard was asked on Channel 4 if those words would have irked Liberty Media, and he replied: “Of course, they won’t like it. 

“They will just think about bottom-line investment. They are cold, hard business people, at the end of the🅘 day. 

“One shoe doesn’t fit all. If Max💞 fits into the grumpy, 85-year-old ‘freaky Friday’ - if that’s who his character is, then be true to yourself.”

Asked if Red Bull team principal Christian Horner might have stepped in to ask that Verstappen tows the line, Coulthard replied: “Yes, I’m sure he would have had that co🌱nversation. 

“But Max believes in freedom of speech.”

Jamie Chadwick insisted that🌞 nobody at Red Bull would be able to influence the strong-willed Verstappen’s opini💎ons.

“No. That’s Max,” Chadwick said. 

“Everything he does, is just him. You’ve g♑ot to respect that. 

“He’s a three-time world champion for a r𝐆eason. I have a lot of admiration f🉐or him. 

“He is himself, at times, and I’m sure Red Bull are frustrated by the th⛎ings he says. But we love it.

“He loves t🐎o race. He doesn’t care about the rest of it.♊ That’s his focus. 

“He doesn’t care about what else is going on, but a lo꧅t of people do care about that. It has brought a lot of eyeballs to the sport this weekend.”

Verstappen, after winning the Las Vegas Grand Prix, was asked if his victཧory had changed his mind at all.

“Long straights, low spꦏeed corners, you don’t lose a lot of downfor🎉ce,” he reacted. 

“That’s never been my issue. Today was fun. That’s the only thing I want to saꦍy about.”

But💯 he was called out for being hypocritical b🌞y Jolyon Palmer.

Palmer told the BBC: “You can’t one minute say ‘This is a shambles this race… if Monaco is Champions League then this is National League’ and then fifty laps later you’re singing Viva Las Vegas in an Elvis suit. C🐻ome on.”