BUDAPEST, Hungary — Max Verstappen was in no temper for criticism about his fiery radio messages on the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Verstappen’s rage intensified over the course of the race as he was each annoyed at stewards’ choices and believed that Purple Bull’s technique had compromised his probabilities of a greater consequence.
The Dutchman had a lot of tetchy exchanges in direction of long-time race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase.
Verstappen snapped after Lambiase had mentioned “nicely, that is some mild introduction,” suggesting his driver had pushed too laborious on a brand new set of tyres.
To that Verstappen replied: “No mate, do not give me that s— now. You guys gave me this s— technique, OK? I am attempting to rescue what’s left.”
Earlier on he had mentioned: “It is fairly spectacular how we managed to get undercut. It fully f—ed my race.”
After the race, it was put to Verstappen that a lot of pundits had recommended his messages had been disrespectful to the workforce.
“They’ll all f— off,” he mentioned, earlier than strolling away from the group of journalists within the media pen.
Verstappen completed fifth, though it could have been larger had been it not for a late tangle with Lewis Hamilton.
The 2 made contact after Verstappen lunged down the within as Hamilton turned throughout him.
The stewards determined no additional motion could be taken after reviewing telemetry from each vehicles.
“I bought loads of s— thrown at me in Austria with folks saying shifting below braking, blah blah blah,” Verstappen mentioned shortly earlier than he stormed off. “I’m positioning my automobile on the preliminary motion after which I preserve it straight.
“At the moment, below braking he simply stored turning to the appropriate 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 surface stored coming at me. In any other case, we’d’ve already crashed earlier than. I needed to cease the automobile so that’s the reason I locked up.”
Of their verdict, the stewards dismissed the suggestion Hamilton had moved below braking.
They mentioned telemetry and video replays of Hamilton’s automobile confirmed he had taken the identical racing line as the previous couple of laps.
He later instructed Sky Sports activities when requested on his heated radio messages: “I do not suppose we have to apologise,” he mentioned. “I simply suppose we have to do a greater job.
“I do not know why folks suppose you can’t be vocal on a radio. This can be a sport. If some folks do not like that then keep dwelling.
“On a day after we’re already missing tempo in comparison with McLaren you try to hope we do the appropriate issues with the technique which immediately was not the case.”