Steiner defends "bad boy" driver Magnussen

Gunther Steiner has defended his driver after the recent backlash against Kevin Magnussen. The Dane once again was in the spotlight for the wrong reasons after blocking Charles Leclerc in first practice for the Spanish Grand Prix.

it came after Magnussen attracted the attention of the race stewards in Baku after almost putting Pierre Gasly into the wall at 300kph but his team boss has come to the defence of his man.

"Everyone feels entitled to criticise Kevin at the moment," Steiner told Ekstra Bladet newspaper.

"He went to the stewards who reprimanded him but he did not get a punishment so that explains the situation. There's no need to make more out of it.

"At the moment Kevin is the bad boy, so whenever he does the slightest thing, the stewards call him. But at least the knows the way up there now.

"I think there's a snowball effect. At some point, people will get bored and no one will read about it anymore and drivers will stop complaining. I'm very easy about it and don't take it as badly as some others do."