F1 Austrian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen - ‘When I’m not upset anymore, I won’t be interested anymore…’

Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko had r🌠evealed how a psychologist was helping Yuki Tsunoda, of sister team AlphaTauri, who “♔explodes on the radio, you wouldn’t believe it”.
Verstappen, whose own radio messages to Red Bull colleagues can be fr🍒actious, said that he has never used a psychologist but will not stop showing🌜 emotion while driving.
“I didn’t work with anyone but, over the years, you look back at what you could have done 🦩better,” he said ahead of the F1 Austrian Grand Prix.
“It doesn’t help the whole teꩲam if you come in upset after a practice session because it makes everyone nervous.
“I still get a bit upset on the radio. It doesn’🎐t influence my performance. But, if things don’t go well, if something is badly executed, then I have a problem.
“When the day comes that I෴ am not upset about these things anymore, then I won’t be interested in the s💛port anymore.
“It is because I care that I sometimes get upset at these things𒈔.
“I🔜t is not influencing my performance in the race.
“Some peoplಌe are more calm, some are more explosive.”

'Our problem child is Tsunoda!'
Verstappen was forced to settle for seventh at the F1 British Grand Prix at 🐓Silverstone last week when a piece of debris from Tsunoda’s AlphaTauri became lodged in his Red Bull.
Marko, the Red Bull consultant, has since said to Servus TV about Tsunoda: “We have organised a kind of psychologist to work with him, because he continued to rant in𝔉 the corners, so that inhibits performance.
“We should keep our emotions in check. Thank God Max is calm, our problem child in this respect, not only in th🌄is respect, is Tsunoda. He explodes on the radio, you wouldn’t believe it.”
Tsunoda revealed that he h𝄹as always worked with a psychologist: “He was part of the reason I was able to step up to Formula 1. He helped me develop my performance in terms of consistency.”
The Japanese driver has a new psychologist provided by Red Bull and 🥃he said: “He has to understand more about myself and what direction we take.
“Definitely I get 𝓀overheated, especially in my brain! In these situations he can make me better. I know that I have✃ to improve myself.”

Sainz: 'Find the balance between agitated and calm'
Carlos Sainz, who w🌌on his first race at the 150th attempt at Silverstone last week, added: “If there is something I have learned, it is finding the balance b⛦etween being agitated and calm. It comes with experience.
“In my first years in F1 I was too calm and didn’t make my point, or too excited and ma🥂ke no sense.”
Kevin Magnussen added: “There is emotion. You ge📖t annoyed, excited.
“If there is stuff that you can improve on, why not try, by speaking to people in the team or friends or a psychol⛦ogis🦩t.
“I can get angry, of course.
“I ꦫam a more emotional person inside the car than outside of the car.”
Esteban Ocon said: “It is not easy to stay level-headed in the car because, in these moments, you can lose everything oಌr win everytꦍhing.
“People react differently. The most important thing for us is to perform under tꦚhese pressures.☂”

James🧸 was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sporꩲts, to football, to F1.