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Verstappen: Easy to blame me

10:11, 12 Apr 2018

bySam Bytheway

Max Verstappen believes it was "easy" for Lewis Hamilton to blame him for their collision in Bahrain.

Verstappen suffered damage to his Red Bull that caused him to retire from the race after a collision with Hamilton on the races second lap. Hamilton accused Verstappen of making an "inexperienced" move.

"It's simple and easy to blame the younger driver. That's the only way I can see it. There is no reason for me to change anything," Verstappen said.

"I might have a talk with Lewis, it depends if it's really necessary. Why should I change something? I don't think I did anything wrong in terms of my approach. I was just trying to overtake a car and I think it was a fair chance. I went for it.

"That's racing - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. You can say whatever you like about the incident. I had fair shot at it, it was nothing crazy, nothing risky but unfortunately this time it didn't work out.

"Looking back, in Mexico last year it did work out, this time maybe we didn't give each other enough space. That's racing."