Despite his success in sprints in recent seasons, Verstappen has made it clear he is not a fan of having an extra event tacked on to the weekend.
This year's timetable has been changed, with the shootout on Friday followed by the sprint and main qualifying on Saturday.
The key change is that while previously teams were locked into an unchanged car specification from FP1 onwards, there are now two parc ferme periods, with a window between the sprint and qualifying during which they can make adjustments.
However, Verstappen suggests the change won't improve the actual racing.
"It's a better format, I would say, in terms of how you approach the weekend," he said. "But I don't get more excited about the race itself.
"But at least I think it's better that you're still able to change the car for the weekend. And a bit more of a logic to it in terms of how you have the sessions now in the race weekends."
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz agrees that the flexibility that the revised parc ferme regulations have brought in is a positive, although he would have liked to have seen more changes.
Source: Autosport