''If you hit a beaver you would have had problems''

Max Verstappen revealed after the Canadian Grand Prix that he almost killed a groundhog. Lando Norris and George Russell were mostly laughing about it during the press conference.

On lap 32 of the Canadian Grand Prix, Verstappen reacted to a groundhog running across the track, which had to be dodged at the last moment. In the press conference, Verstappen addressed the moment.

George Russell, who was driving behind Verstappen, appeared to have the answer to that question: "I saw it," George said. "Did he run away?" asked Max, after which Russell confirmed that the animal had run away. "I was quite happy because I caught you up by a couple of tenths," Russell then joked. "I really had to slow down for it because I was a bit off the dry line. Last year, of course, a bird flew into my car, so I didn't want to have a groundhog stuck in my car as well."

Verstappen closed the question by stating that he had kept calling it a beaver (which was not the case), but that it was actually a groundhog. To that, Norris joked: "If you hit a beaver you would have had problems," the Brit concluded, after which the three men burst into laughter.