Verstappen's apology over Russell crash in Spain, not entirely the Dutchman's idea

On Sunday after the Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villenueve, Horner was asked about Verstappen's social media apology. An act inspired by the British team principal?

"Yes, it’s something that we talked about after the race and as I said, he immediately apologised in the debrief to the team. He very quickly talks about things, addresses them and moves on," the team principal said.

After the race in Montmelo, Verstappen put out a tweet in social media addrssing the now famous move on his British counterpart.

For Horner, social media was the right vessel for Verstappen to send out his apology over the crash to the world as 'it's a tool' that yields its benefits from time to time.

"I think the world that we live in, that social media is so instant, as a communication tool it obviously has its benefits sometimes," he concluded.

For the incident at Turn 5 with Russell, Verstappen was severely punished with a 10 second penalty time added to his race finishing time which demote him to P10, and three points on his license which left him on the verge of a race ban, somethng he still has to watch out for in the next Grand Prix.

For Canada the entire media could only seem to focus on the Dutchman's looming race ban, something that irritated the 4-time world champion. Despite starting P2 alongside ardent rival Russell who jested he had less to lose than the Dutchman, the start of the race yielded no incidents and Verstappen managed to keep out of trouble. Nevertheless for the British Grand Prix, the Red Bull Racing driver needs to continue to watch out with his first penalty points expiring ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix.