Max Verstappen embarked on an odd rescue adventure to locate his cat.
Max Verstappen has revealed that he was once forced to rescue his pet cat by smashing through one of his doors with a hammer. The Red Bull star claimed that the pet had been missing for several hours before they heard it making noise in a small cupboard room.
Verstappen’s feline friend had managed to make its way into the room before jumping onto a bed. He believes that the bed then fell, preventing the door from opening.
The two-time world champion had to use a hammer to smash a hole into the wall. The cat was then able to escape.
Speaking on Twitch, Verstappen said: “I lost one cat for like three or four hours, I didn’t know where it was. I was walking around and suddenly the cat starts meowing behind a door so I was like, ‘Oh dear!’.
“It was a little closet room so it’s only a one-way entrance. I’m trying to open the door but the door wasn’t want to open because a baby bed had fallen down behind the door in the storage room.
Max Verstappen had to smash a hole into his door (Image: MAX VERSTAPPEN)
“The door was completely locked because the cat had pushed the bed down. There was no way to open the door. I tried everything so I had to make a lovely hole in the door with a hammer!
“The cat must have been so scared, though, with all that noise in the dark. I almost broke my shoulder trying to go through the door – it didn’t really work out.”
Verstappen continued: “So now I have a door with a massive hole in it! I tried [to take it off the hinges] but the thing is, you have to open the door slightly and unhook it.
“I’m probably not the best guy out there to repair or rip something apart. I do know that.”
One member of the stream added: “If you want your door taken off, Max is the last person to ask!” The Miami Grand Prix champion jokingly responded: “It depends how you want it taken out!”
Verstappen’s pet is not the only cat to catch the attention in F1 this season. At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, a safety car was forced to swerve to avoid a cat, although Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was the only driver to spot the animal.
Responding to journalists who had misheard him telling his team there was a cat, rather than a power cut in his car, Leclerc said: “Absolutely not, I said there was a cat! Which was different. There was a cat in the middle of the road.
“The safety car had to stop. But I think I was the only one who saw that. On the exit of Turn 1 there was a cat. The safety car braked, it wasn’t too bad.”
