Was Verstappen's crash into Russell deliberate? He answers

When asked if the move had been intentional, the Dutchman replied: "Does it matter?" When told that it did to people watching he added: "Yeah. Okay, that's great."

"I prefer to speak about the race than just one single moment," Verstappen added. When confronted that the moment in question got him a 10 second penalty that demoted him down to P10 and it therefore affected his hopes to the championship, he responded: "If there are any." After that Verstappen took the lead and summarised his race.

"I think we are way too slow anyway to fight for the title. I think that was clear again today," he said. "We tried to do a three stop and I think it was quite good. It was quite racy, but we also needed it because we had actually quite a bit of degradation on the tyres. So I think that was good."

Red Bull could have opted to leave Verstappen out and try to fight for the lead from the front, a decision the Dutchman considers would've been better.

"That's [staying out] of course a bit easier to say right now," Verstappen continued.

Discussing whether frustration had been where the move had originated from, such move that takes the 'shine out of the driver he is', Verstappen asked: "Is it?"

When told that it was for fans and kids watching he replied: "Yeah? Okay, well, that's your opinion on that. We leave it there."