Russell and Verstappen had minor contact on ♓two separate occasio✤ns on Lap 1 of the sprint, ultimately giving the Red Bull driver damage.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:According to Christian Horner, the damage to Verstappen’s sidepod cost him approximately 0.7s in lap time as he finished behind Sergio Perez and 🐻Charles Leclerc.

Verstappen was quick to voice his frustrations in parc ferme, exchanging words with Russell about what had happened 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:before calling him a ****head.

Giving his side of the story, Russell was surprised Verstappen tried to defend the position so hard by po🍷sitionin🔯g his car on the outside.

"I was down the inside and I ꦬthink as a driver you know the risks when you're on the outside,” Russell said. 

“I'ཧm here to fight, I'm here to win and I'm not going to hold back just because he's leading the championship.

"I wa🍸s quite surprised he was still trying to hold it around the outside. It's a str💖eet circuit and he has a lot more to lose than I have. 

“None of the contact was intention🌳al, I was 🦩doing my best to try and have a clean fight. I was quite surprised he was resisting the position, I was on the inside.”

Russell didn’t understand why Ve💎rstappen was “so angry” afterꦜwards given that he was still able to finish inside the top three.

"I was surprised why he was so angry to be honest. He still fini🃏shed the race in P3. 

“He's got enou𒐪gh experience to know that if you're trying to overtake a guy on𒐪 the outside there's a risk the guy on the inside is going to run wide into you.

"I d♒on't think anything would've👍 been any different had the positions been reversed.”