While cruising to his eighth successive victory in Sunday’s race in Belgium, having fought back from a grid penalty,ꦕ Verstappen made a suggestion that underlined his superiority over the field. 

“I could push on and we do another stop. A little bit of pit-stop training?🅠” Verstappen confidently requested over team radio. 

The re🉐sponse from race engineer Gianpiero Lam♔biase was blunt: “Not this time.” 

It followed a series of confr𒐪ontational radio exchanges with Lambiase throughout the race which Verstappen admitted were 50% serious and 50% joking. 

After passing teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez on Lap 17, the Dutchman went on to win by 22 seconds as he claimed his 10th victory from 12 races so far this season🎐 to extend his championship lead to a staggering 125 points. 

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner explained thaꦫt Versta🎀ppen’s request was rejected because the team “didn’t want to end up with egg on our face”. 

"We didn't want to get too gr𓃲eedy, because we won the sprint race yest🍃erday, a 1-2 finish today, we didn't want to end up with egg on our face, compromising that in any way,” he said. 

In the end, Mercedes’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton nicked the fastest lap bonus poin�🌠�t off Verstappen on the 44th and final lap of the rac🌜e. 

"To give away one point, I don't think anybody will lose too much sleep over it,” Horner a🎀dded.&nbღsp;

"We got a little worried that the tyres - you could see they were starting to open up a bit - and we didn't want to getꦡ into too much depth. So, it was about just clo𝕴sing out the race.