F1 star forced to apologise after admitting ‘I s*** my pants’ in awkward moment live on air

There was a brilliantly uncomfortable infinitesimal successful the paddock aft Max Verstappen sealed his fourth-straight F1 rubric successful Las Vegas, with Yuki Tsunoda forced to apologise for swearing unrecorded connected air.

Verstappen knew the title was his arsenic agelong arsenic helium did not driblet 3 oregon much points to Lando Norris and the Red Bull sensation ne'er looked similar slipping up successful Sin City.

After an absorbing and action-packed race, Verstappen finished wherever helium began successful 5th place, with McLaren’s Norris taking sixth and an inspired George Russell triumphing for Mercedes.

Verstappen’s latest triumph – aft his erstwhile successes successful 2021, 2022 and 2023 – puts the Belgium-born prima level with Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel connected 4 title wins.

RB operator Tsunoda was astatine the bosom of the enactment passim and was possibly fortunate to travel location successful ninth aft crashing into a speed-limit motion portion exiting the pitlane successful Vegas, sending the polystyrene artifact flying done the air.

‘You had 1 of the astir unexpected moments of the contention erstwhile you got a spot of aerial clip successful the pitlane. What happened there?!’ F1 TV big Will Buxton asked Tsunoda aft the race.

‘Oh yeah, I s*** my pants!’ the Japanese operator replied, overmuch to the astonishment of a red-faced Buxton.

It was an eventful week each circular for Tsunoda, with the 24-year-old revealing earlier the contention that helium had been interrogated by US borderline officials portion wearing successful his pyjamas.

‘Luckily, they fto maine successful aft a mates of discussions,’ helium explained.

‘Well, a batch of discussions, actually… I astir got sent backmost home.

Tsunoda added: ‘I did the visas and everything … I was capable to participate smoothly astatine the erstwhile way [Circuit of the Americas].

“Felt a spot unusual that I got stopped and had a due discussion. Luckily, it didn’t spell connected much than 2 oregon 3 hours.

‘It’s not the archetypal clip we’ve travel present this year. I heard a batch of things, but hopefully that is each good successful the aboriginal – and smoothly.”

‘I was wearing pyjamas, truthful possibly I didn’t look similar an F1 driver.’

After wrapping up his 4th title, a beaming Verstappen said helium was ‘incredibly arrogant of everyone’ who contributed to his occurrence crossed the season.

‘It’s been a agelong season. Of course, we started disconnected amazing, it was astir similar cruising but past we had a pugnacious run,’ helium told Sky Sports.

‘But arsenic a squad we kept it together, we kept moving connected betterment and we pulled implicit the line.

‘I’m incredibly arrogant of everyone, what they person done for me.

‘To basal present arsenic a four-time satellite champion is of people thing that I ne'er thought was possible. So, astatine the infinitesimal conscionable feeling relieved, successful a way, but besides precise proud.’

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