NASCAR star shares hilarious video of Max Verstappen falling on his butt whilst playing ‘soap soccer’ with family in his tribute post

NASCAR start Daniel Suarez congratulated Red Bull driver Max Verstappen after he shared a hilarious video of the latter falling on his butt, whilst playing "soap soccer". The Dutch driver notched up his fourth successive F1 world championship at the recently concluded Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday night.

Heading into the race, the 27-year-old just needed to finish ahead of his title rival Lando Norris on track to claim the achievement, which he did by finishing P5, a place ahead of the McLaren driver.

Verstappen was showered with praise from all quarters of motorsports with NASCAR star Daniel Suarez joining the list. Suarez and Verstappen share a family connection: The Mexican driver is married to Julia Piquet, who is the sister of the Red Bull driver's girlfriend Kelly.

On his social media platform, X, Suarez posted a couple of videos of the duo playing "soap soccer" and video games together with family in Brazil and wrote:

"Congratulations mate!! Here’s to many more Mario kart games and busting our butt playing soap soccer."

In his post-race press conference, Max Verstappen mentioned that "most of his highs" from his title run came at the beginning of the season when he won seven out of the 10 races. He said:

"I mean, most of the highs, I think, were in the beginning of the season where we were still competitive and winning races. And it seemed like a little bit of a repeat of last year in the beginning.

"And then the lows, I would say, I mean, tough times are definitely the ones in the middle where we were struggling for pace, not making the podiums even. But we always maximized our results."

Max Verstappen speaks on his learnings from the 2024 title run

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen stated that he had gone flat out in the car despite encountering some frustrating moments throughout the season. He told the media about his important lessons from the year:

"Of course, I always thought to myself already after last year, like don't expect another year like that. It's very rare that those things happen. But then at one point, you know, the car was also just really difficult to drive. And then it was about just working together with the team because when you have these tough moments, it can also be very demotivating.

"You know, like whatever, you know, I give up on this. But then those moments are actually very important to keep it together and actually work harder and try to understand what is going on."

Max Verstappen will look to become the second driver in F1 history next year to win five consecutive driver's championships and match Juan Manuel Fangio.