Verstappen Meltdown Highlights F1's Spanish Grand Prix

For nearly the entire 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, it appeared as if the main stories would once again be the dominance of the two McLarens, along with the championship resolve of Max Verstappen overperforming in an increasingly-deficient Red Bull.

Max found himself in the headlines alright, but it wasn’t for the reasons he’d like. With about 12 laps to go, the #12 Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli had another failure, resulting in a Safety Car being called out while his car was cleared from the gravel.

Verstappen, who was in 3rd at the time and over 15 seconds clear of 4th-place Leclerc, was hurt by this more than anyone. What looked like a guaranteed podium turned into a series of blunders, culminating in a temper-fueled collision with George Russell that Max himself later acknowledged was an intentional act.

Despite many pundits suggesting a harsher punishment, only a 10-second penalty was applied, keeping Red Bull’s lead driver in a points-paying position. This seemed to defy the standard that appeared to have been established at the 1997 European Grand Prix, after which Michael Schumacher was disqualified from the entire World Driver’s Championship for intentionally ramming Jacques Villeneuve during the race.

Now, all of that is very interesting – but this is a numerology Blog. So why am I posting about this?

Last week, I mentioned a special alignment for Verstappen at the Spanish Grand Prix in this post about a plane crash in San Diego.

Last year, I made this post after Max Verstappen and George Russell remarkably tied for pole position at the Canadian GP, where the circuit is named after Jacques Villeneuve’s father. I also made a video on it, which shows strong evidence that F1 can manipulate qualifying times:

It was only the second time there was a tie in qualifying since F1 began timing down to a the thousandths of a second. The first tie? The 1997 European Grand Prix – the same race that Michael Schumacher earned his DQ on Villeneuve. Both of those drivers were part of the three-way tie for pole position.

Naturally, the next race in two weeks will be held at Gilles Villeneuve Circuit in Canada. Not only that – prior to Sunday’s race in Spain, Canada’s only current F1 driver, Lance Stroll, announced he would be sitting out due to injury.

Revelation

The Book of Revelation is an Apocalyptic tale of the Antichrist and the Second Coming of Jesus.

Revelation is the 66th and final book of the Christian Bible.

Max was looking for his 66th win
The Spanish GP lasts 66 laps

66 is 11×6

Recall what I pointed out for Max for this race:

Russell = 106 was 106 days after his birthday.

The next race in Montreal, Quebec will be the first Grand Prix after June 11th, or 6/11.

Max’s entire career has been coded by the 911 code, which is of course 116 flipped upside-down.

Max was 1442 weeks old for last week’s Cessna crash.

1997 European Grand Prix

827 is the 144th Prime number

144 is the 12th Square number and the 12th Fibonacci number. Car #12 for Kimi Antonelli crashed out with 12 laps left, leading to the late drama.

In the Book of Revelation, the number 144 is mentioned on four different occasions.

That same book reveals the number of the Beast to be 666.

Adding 6+6+6 = 18
The 18th Prime number is 61
The race was held on 6/1

It was also 601 days after Yale University turned 322 in 2023. That’s also a span of exactly 86 weeks, and Barcelona, Spain = 86.

The last verse of Revelation is 22:21
2221 is the 331st Prime number

Revelation, written by John of Patmos, is the Last book of the Bible and tells of the Second coming of God’s son.

331 is the 67th Prime number
This was the 67th Spanish GP

Skull and Bones

The date of Schumacher’s near-fatal skiing crash was 12/29, which had Primary numerology of 74:

Michael was just five days shy of his 45th birthday.

He was born on January 3rd, or 1/3:

Schumacher’s 1997 incident also involved Jacque Villeneuve, who has Primary birth numerology of 103:

William Russell is a co-founder of Skull and Bones and shares a name with the driver, George William Russell, who began his career driving for Williams.

The co-founder of the society was Alphonso Taft. Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso scored his first points of the season in his home Grand Prix. Read more on these connections.