Max Verstappen in expletive five-word rebuke to F1 critics after Lewis Hamilton crash

Max Verstappen advised his critics to “f*** off” in an explosive media session after his crash with Lewis Hamilton on the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The three-time F1 world champion endured a torrid race on the Hungaroring, taking second place at flip one however overtaking Norris off the monitor. Regardless of initially refusing, he ultimately listened to his engineer and gave the place again to the McLaren driver.

Verstappen was then vocally important over the staff radio about Pink Bull’s technique earlier than a late collision with outdated foe Hamilton. The Dutchman surged up the within at flip one and the pair collided, with Verstappen coming off worse and ending in fifth whereas Hamilton was on the rostrum in third.

It capped off a day to overlook for Verstappen and talking with the written media in Budapest, the 26-year-old was brutal in his response when it was put to him that he might have taken his frustration too far.

“I see lots of feedback from individuals who say ‘you’re too pissed off, you went too far in your feedback, you disrespect the staff’”, he stated. “They will all f*** off.”

Verstappen went on accountable Hamilton for his or her collision, regardless of pundits and consultants insisting the Dutchman was at fault. Each have been cleared by the stewards after the race.

“I received lots of s*** thrown at me in Austria when individuals saying transferring below braking,” he stated, in reference to his collision with Norris on the Austrian Grand Prix.

“I’m positioning my automobile on the preliminary motion after which I saved it straight. Right this moment, below braking, he simply saved turning to the best and that’s the reason I additionally locked up as a result of I used to be going for the transfer however I noticed the automobile on the skin saved coming at me.

“In any other case, we might’ve already crashed earlier than. I needed to cease the automobile so that’s the reason I locked up.”

Hamilton, nonetheless, accused Verstappen of “hostility” and laid the blame on the Pink Bull driver’s door.

Verstappen, through the race, described the staff’s technique as “s***” as his anger boiled over, along with his engineer Gianpiero Lambiase at one level calling his driver “infantile” as he argued his case following the Hamilton collision.

Because of his fifth-place end, Verstappen’s lead within the F1 world championship has been minimize to 76 factors after Norris completed second.