Max Verstappen left a sim-racing rival furious (Image: Getty)
has made a new enemy in Esports driver Jaden Munoz, who labelled the four-time world champion a ‘spoilt brat’ who would be ‘nobody’ without his father following two collisions in an iRacing event.
The two drivers were competing in an LMDh sports car race at the iconic Road America circuit on iRacing, and the drama started on the opening lap. Munoz rolled off from third on the grid but quickly found himself running second behind the Dutchman.
Munoz had a run on the race leader, who swerved right and then left on the approach to the Turn One right-hander in a bid to defend. The pair made brief contact on the start-finish straight, and then Verstappen lost the car’s rear on corner entry, spinning and nearly tagging his rival.
Williams’ esports star was less than impressed. “Look how dumb he is,” he said to his livestream viewers. Later in the race, the two drivers came together again in a much more controversial fashion.
Munoz, who was tailing the leader at the time, came up to lap Verstappen, whose race came undone after his Turn One spin. “Oh no, oh no,” the Williams man said as he approached the -liveried LMDh machine, anticipating a retaliation from the four-time world champion.
After letting the leader through, Verstappen tagged Munoz on the entry to the next corner, sending both cars spinning into the gravel. His rival was furious. “Yeah, I knew it,” he sighed. “I knew it. This is why you were gifted everything in your life, Max. You’re a spoilt brat. You’d be nothing without your father. You’d be nothing. You’d be a nobody.”
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Max Verstappen was brutally called out by a rival (Image: Getty)
This was not the first race in which Verstappen and Munoz had come together. The pair clashed on the opening lap of the 2024-25 GTP IMSA Global Esports Championship season finale earlier this month, with the Williams Esports team narrowly avoiding a disastrous result.
Verstappen entered the race as a wildcard for the final race but tangled with the championship-leading Williams BMW machine at the opening corner. Both drivers picked up damage, and the F1 star was slapped with a drive-through penalty.
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“I just locked up a bit the rears and in this car, it’s very hard to control that, so I just went wide,” he confessed after the event. “Of course, there was also the other car that I couldn’t avoid, so that was a bit unlucky there. My mistake. After that, I think both cars had damage, so it was quite a difficult first stint.
“Then we boxed, almost cleaned the car, I would say, [it was] almost fully repaired, so the pace was almost back. I tried to overtake a backmarker, I think a GTD car, and he didn’t keep his line. I think he just wanted to keep out of the way, to be honest, a bit of miscommunication and I had damage again within three laps of the stint.”