{"id":6086,"date":"2025-08-30T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/max-verstappen-fan-favorite-but-for-once-not-race-favorite-for-home-gp\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:50:11","slug":"max-verstappen-fan-favorite-but-for-once-not-race-favorite-for-home-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/max-verstappen-fan-favorite-but-for-once-not-race-favorite-for-home-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen: Fan favorite but \u2014 for once \u2014 not race favorite for home GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">Zandvoort, Netherlands &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is simply impossible to avoid Max Verstappen at Zandvoort aan Zee, the seaside resort that hosts the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Fans board the &ldquo;Max Express,&rdquo; a special train rebranded for the Grand Prix. Leaving the station, the first thing they see is a huge trailer crammed with Verstappen merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dive into the sea of orange&rdquo; reads a billboard at the entrance to the circuit, a reference to the hundreds of thousands of <em>oranje<\/em>-clad fans cheering on Verstappen, arguably the best globally known Dutch sports star since Johan Cruyff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Max Verstappen: Fan favorite but &mdash; for once &mdash; not race favorite for home GP<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zandvoort, Netherlands &ndash; It is simply impossible to avoid Max Verstappen at Zandvoort aan Zee, the seaside resort that hosts the Dutch Grand Prix. Fans board the &ldquo;Max Express,&rdquo; a special train rebranded for the Grand Prix. Leaving the station, the first thing they see is a huge trailer crammed with Verstappen merchandise. &ldquo;Dive into&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/max-verstappen-fan-favorite-but-for-once-not-race-favorite-for-home-gp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Max Verstappen: Fan favorite but \u2014 for once \u2014 not race favorite for home GP&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}