Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen didn’t hold his emotions back after scoring his second podium on the trot in the 2018 Formula 1 French Grand Prix.
The Dutchman has had a difficult season with multiple incidents during the race weekends whereby he was unable to finish where the car was capable to. The media pressure grew as well with questions raised on his approach on a regular basis.
With Verstappen coming back to form – sort of – after scoring back-to-back podiums, the Red Bull driver gave back to the media following the incident between Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas at Turn 1 in the grand prix.
“I think next time you see Seb you should ask him to change his style, y’know? Because honestly, it’s not acceptable,” he said [sarcastically]. “That’s what they said to me at the beginning of the season, so I think they should do the same!
“And then, of course, Seb shouldn’t do anything, and just drive again and learn from this and go on. That’s my advice to everyone in this room. I hope when we get to Austria that the journalists ask him if he will change his approach because that is what l heard for so many races.
“It really annoyed me and it was stupid to ask,” he added. Verstappen is of the view that as humans, everyone can make mistakes. When everyone asked him whether he will change his approach, he said he didn’t and yet he has two podiums in two races.
“Mistakes happen and they happen to the best of us,” he said. “But it makes me angry because they won’t be as bad on him [Vettel] as they were on me. All the time they came to me on how l should change my approach and these stupid comments.
“I didn’t change a thing and now everything is going right. I focus on my myself, but all these stupid comments you read on social media and journalists, it’s really stupid. I am not going to hold back on it.”
The Dutchman had a fairly lonely French GP after moving into second on Lap 1 post the crash between Vettel and Bottas. In the end, he didn’t have enough pace to challenge Hamilton who finished 7.090s ahead.
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