{"id":21927,"date":"2024-02-26T20:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/formula-e-ceo-dodds-pledges-250k-donation-if-verstappen-fails-to-win-title\/26\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T20:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:45:59","slug":"formula-e-ceo-dodds-pledges-250k-donation-if-verstappen-fails-to-win-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/formula-e-ceo-dodds-pledges-250k-donation-if-verstappen-fails-to-win-title\/26\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E CEO Dodds pledges $250k donation if Verstappen fails to win title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Formula E boss Jeff Dodds has promised to pay $250,000 to charity if Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen fails to win a fourth successive Formula One title this season.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull won 21 of 22 races last year in the most dominant of campaigns, while 26-year-old Dutch driver Verstappen managed a record 19 victories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/racing\/story\/_\/id\/39558892\/a-comprehensive-guide-f1-preseason-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A comprehensive guide to F1&#8217;s preseason testing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Red Bull as a team have won 38 of the last 44 races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless he&#8217;s injured or something crazy happens, 99% he [Verstappen] gets that trophy,&#8221; Dodds said in an interview with TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;99% Max has got this in the bag&#8221;\ud83d\udca5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIAFormulaE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@FIAFormulaE<\/a> CEO Jeff Dodds puts $250k on the line &#8211; will it make Formula 1 more competitive? \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dwFpeBGFzz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dwFpeBGFzz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TNT Sports (@tntsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntsports\/status\/1760280856050991459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">February 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If any one of the other 19 drivers wins it [the F1 championship], we&#8217;ll give a quarter of a million dollars to the charity of choice of the other driver that wins it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be the worst day in the office to give a load of money to charity. But absolutely he is nailed on to win that season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All-electric Formula E has proved less predictable than F1, with three different winners in three races so far in the 10th season of the series that started in January but attracts a far smaller audience.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0221%2Fr1294029_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0221%2Fr1294029_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0221%2Fr1294029_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0221%2Fr1294029_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Jeff Dodds in January at an event marking a partnership between Formula E and the Saudi-backed Public Investment Fund.\u00a0<cite>Photo by Dave Benett\/Getty Images for Formula E<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>France&#8217;s double champion Jean-Eric Vergne is the only driver to win more than one Formula E title since the city-based series started in 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If [McLaren&#8217;s] Lando [Norris] wins, we&#8217;ll go and visit him and give him a quarter of a million dollars for his charity. Absolutely, no questions asked,&#8221; said Dodds, who took the helm of the electric series last June.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen set the pace on the first day of Formula One testing on Wednesday, with the season starting there on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>Dodds said Formula E was on a rapid development curve and getting faster and faster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see acceleration in these [future] Formula E cars that leaves every other motorsport pretty much for dust,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39568453\/formula-e-ceo-dodds-pledges-250000-charity-max-verstappen-fails-title-win-red-bull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula E boss Jeff Dodds has promised to pay $250,000 to charity if Red Bull&rsquo;s Max Verstappen fails to win a fourth<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/formula-e-ceo-dodds-pledges-250k-donation-if-verstappen-fails-to-win-title\/26\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[5331,2349,5329,5332,4083,435,5330,113,624,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21929,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions\/21929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}