MAX VERSTAPPEN revealed he was ready to go to sleep mid-race during the Monaco Grand Prix.
The Red Bull star started in sixth place on the grid on the French Riviera after a shaky performance in qualifying.
And that is where he finished in a race that lacked action after the restart following a red flag in the first lap.
A huge crash saw Verstappen’s team-mate Sergio Perez hit the wall after being clipped by Haas driver Kevin Magnussen.
The incident saw Perez’s car cut in half, taking out another Haas man Niko Hulkenberg.
Race officials ordered a restart with Charles Leclerc leading from Oscar Piastri, with Verstappen still sixth.
And with overtaking notoriously difficult on the Monaco circuit, the defending champion became rather bored with his drive around the streets of the city state as Leclerc claimed victory in his hometown.
Verstappen said over his team radio: “This is really boring, I should have brought my pillow.”
Members of the Red Bull Racing social media team shared his feeling, so instead they looked to X for entertainment as they played a game of noughts and crosses with their junior team, Visa Cash App RB.
Fans were also left bored by the race with one reacting to Verstappen’s comment, tweeting: “Saying what we always think about F1.”
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Another added: “Sounds like Monaco.”
And a third wrote: “The most boring race of the year.”
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