Max Verstappen takes shot at F1 stewards with “investigated straight away” jibe

"And I know t𝔍hat, of course, if I wouldn't have lifted, it would have been 🔥investigated straight away."

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen has claimed he “would have been investigated straight away” if he committed the same offence 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris did in the F1 Qatar Grand Prix.

During the middle of the Qatar GP, Verstappen noticed that Norris had significantly gained 🐷time d💖own the start-finish straight when double-waved yellow flags were out.

Verstappen reported ꧒over team radio: “Check if he lifted for the yellow. There was a y✅ellow in the middle of the straight.”

His race engineer Gianpier🥀o Lambiase quickly confirmed that Norris hadn’t lifted.

It was soဣon investigated by the F1 stewards 🔜and Norris was hit with a hefty 10-second stop-go penalty.

The penalty dropped Norris to the back of the field before fin꧂ishing 10th.

Speaking in the FIA press conference after the race on Sun♑day, Verstappꦍen felt that if he had been speeding under yellow flags - like Norris did - it would have been investigated without any intervention from a fellow driver.

“Well, I mean, I knew that I lifted because I saw the double yellow,” he said. “And I know that, of course, if I wouldn't have lifted, it would have been investigated straight away. So you're just on it. I mean, yeah, I ask﷽ed if he lifted because he had a DRS, I think, 🌳from a backmarker at the same time as well.

♊And then, of course, when we came out of Turn 1, I saw that he was a lot closer.

“So I just asked the team to check it. I mean, it was just a normal question. 🦂And I know, of course, with double yellows, they're quite strict.”

Verstappen left frustrated in Qatar

While Verstappen clinched his ninth F1 victory of the season - and his first dry weather win since the Spanish Grand Prix - he was still left frustrated by Mercedes’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell.

Verstappen was handed a one-place grid penalty after qualifying after the stewards felt he had been driving unnecessarily slo♊w in Q3, while also getting in the way of Russell.

The penalty for Verstappen was peculia💖r given that driving too slowly in qualifying is rarely punished, plus Russell, who he had ‘impeded’, wasn’t even on a flying lap.

Verstappen was also irked by Russell’s behaviour in the stewards’ roo🦄m.

The four-time world champion said he had “lost all respec🌞t” for Russell after the British dri🃏ver pushed for Verstappen to receive a penalty.

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