'For a driver leading the World Championship with the front row of the grid [on Sunday], to me that was not the sort of thing that a Niki Lauda or an Alain Prost would have done.' F1 AzerbaijanGP Formula1
‘Max Verstappen can’t race George Russell the way he races Lewis Hamilton’Formula 1 pundit Peter Windsor was surprised that Max Verstappen did not make room for George Russell at the start of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix sprint race, claiming he cannot race Russell the way he races Lewis Hamilton.
After finishing third behind Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc, Verstappen confronted Russell in parc ferme with the Red Bull driver branding his Mercedes counterpart a “d**khead” in a heated exchange. The collision came upon F1’s return to racing action for the first time since the Australian Grand Prix, where Verstappen was passed by both Mercedes drivers on the opening lap before breezing past Hamilton with DRS to retake the lead later on.“I’ve got to say I’m a bit surprised that Max didn’t read that.
“We’ve seen so many times the driver on the inside, if there are two cars abreast going into Turn 2 at Baku with the tyres not fully up to temperature, running wide with understeer and then inevitably hitting the guy on the outside.“I was surprised that Max didn’t just let George Russell go, because we’ve seen what George can do in that situation. Go right back to Jerez, the [2017] GP3 decider when he did that to his team-mate at ART, Jack Aitken.
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