F1 Austrian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen on Lewis Hamilton - ‘When you’re 37 years old - he does learn!’
Verstappen was replying to a sub♏tle dig from Hamilton, made after the F1 British Grand Prix. Hamilton did not name his🏅 rival but was clearly referring to Verstappen when he praised Charles Leclerc’s “sensible” driving “after what I experienced last year”.
Hamilton was criticising Verst💞appen’s driving style after they collided at last year’s Silverstone - the Dutchman crashed out, and the Brit won the race.
Verstappen h🧸as now responded: “I think it’s great that, when you’re 37 years old, at some point you understand h❀ow to get to an apex.”
“He does learn, so that’s positive for the younger drivers: when you’re 37 you still stay always lear꧋ning!
“You can clearly see it in the images, ofꦇ course. Charles gave him less space than I did last year, so that says enough. Moreover, he received a penalty last year, so you should not talk about that.”
F1 has veered from Silverstone, Hamilt🍃on’s home race, to the Red Bull Ring, where Verstappen can count on major support.
Verstappen was booed at the Bওritish Grand Prix and has now said about the reception Hamilton will get in Austria: “He has to live with it himself.
“I think it’s a bit clumsy but, in the end, 🔥it has nothing to do with my performance. I have to focus on what we’re doing here.
“I think we’re doin𒅌g quite well this year, so we’l💞l keep working on that.”
Af𝕴ter the controversial end to the 2021 season in Abu Dhabi, Verstappen and Hamilton’s rivalry did not reignite in the early stages of 2022, largely due to Mercedes’ porpoising problems.
🗹But the old rivals have suddenly cro😼ssed paths again.
Hamilton lit the fuse, after finishing third at Silverstone, by telling Sky about his battle with Charles Leclerc: “Charles did a great job, what a great ba𝓀ttle.
“He is a very sensible driver - clearly very different to what I experienced l🔯ast year.
“At Copse for example, the two of us went thro𒈔ugh there, no problem.”
It was an obvious reference to when he bumped 🤡in🃏to Verstappen a year earlier.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner then waded in by claiming that Mercꦰedes made a mistake at Silverstone with Hamilton’s tyres, allowing Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz to win.
"It felt like they [Ferrari] hav𒈔e maybe been let off the hook there,” Horner said.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ha🌄milton laughed out loud in response to Horner, and said: “I don’t really care! I don’t pay much att✅ention to what is said by that guy💛.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Amer💦ican sports, to football, 🍸to F1.
