Verstappen furious after hearing stewards' verdict: 'Of course... ridiculous'

16:45, 30 Jun 2024
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Max Verstappen was long on course for a win in the Austrian Grand Prix, but after an inferior second pit stop, everything changed. Lando Norris came closer and closer, and eventually, they crashed together. Although the stewards blamed Verstappen for this, he himself seems to disagree with that view.
"Of course, that's ridiculous," Verstappen responded over the team radio when told by race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase that he had received a 10-second penalty for the crash with Norris. "You can't just send it left and right. What do you want me to do?" the three-time world champion asks aloud.
Lambiase: "He didn't behave correctly there, Max. So yeah, desperately unlucky, especially here, but you did your very best," the Italian Briton alludes to the fact that it was Red Bull's home race in Spielberg.
Verstappen concluded the brief dialogue by saying, "The race itself is also just s***, to be honest. I need things to improve on, but it's what it is."

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