🐭Nico Rosberg believes Max Verstappen should have been issued a blac🧜k flag for his “horrible” driving against George Russell during the final laps of the Spanish Grand Prix.

Verstappen ﷽was instructed by Red Bull to hand back the position to Mercedes rival Russellജ as the Barcelona Formula 1 race neared its conclusion.

The message was in response to Verstappen running wide at Turn 1 and gaining an advantage while defending fourth pla🧜ce froܫm Russell at a late safety car restart on lap 61 of 66.

Verstappen was initially fuming at the request from Red Bull but did slow 🎃down heading into Turn 5 in order to let Russell through. However, just when Russell was completing the move around the outside of the left-hander, the Dutchman appeared to speed up again, leading to contact between the pair.

The four-time world champion eventually gave way to Russell at Turn 11, but the stewards held him responsible for the previous clash and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:handed him a 10-second time penalty, dropping from fifth to 10th in th𒊎e final classification.

Nico Rosberg judges Max Verstappen v George Russell incident

However, 2016 F1 champion Rosberg feels the sanction was too lenient, stating Versts✅appen’s actions were too dangerous and warranted a bigger penalty.

"Wow, tꦚhat’s bad, bad, bad," he said on Sky's F1 broadcast. "That is seriously bad. He just rams him, full on.&♏nbsp;

"You need to black flag that, there is no other way. Max was in the right - at first. The team went against Max and caused him to b𓃲oil over."

Verstappen struggled on hard tyres at the safety car restart with six laps to go and lost the final podium spot to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc on the start/finish straight, with R𒆙ussell also emerging into the picture heading into T♎urn 1.

While 𒈔t𓃲he two initially appeared to be neck-and-neck, Verstappen ran wide around the apex as they made contact and had to take the escape road.

He rejoin꧅ed the track ahead of the three-time grand prix winner, setting off a chain of eventsꦗ that led to the controversial Turn 5 incident later in the race.

In this case, Rosberg believes Russell was to blame for the incident, as he believes the Briton wasn’t fully in control of the﷽ car.

“I can tell you how it is. It was Georges’s fault,” Rosberg said. “He went in too hot. He oversteered out. He tapped into Max, who of course has t𝄹o use the escape road.

“Then Max could have stayed in front because that was not the way to do a pass. Because George over🐭cooked it in.

“The team messed up saying that George pa🦩ssed. Th꧒at really annoyed Max because he knows that George rammed him off the track. 

“In Max’s eyes he was 100 percent in the right so why are you telling me to do this? ‘That guy just rammed me off, watch this, I will show you what he did!’ He slowed down then ra🍌mmed into [Russell]. 

“Which is even𓃲 worse. If you slow down to ram into another driver, that’s pretty b🐭ad.”

Rosberg stood by his initial comments when he reflected afterwards🅷.

"The first one was George’s fault because he only complied with two out of three things that you need to comply with when you ove𒀰rtake," he said.

"So Max could have stayed in front and didn't have to give up the place🍰▨.

"Red Bull told him to give up th🐼e place and that ca𒊎used his blood to boil more.

"Then it 🍰looked like a very intentional retaliation. Wait for the opponent, ram him, like you felt the other guy rammed you.

"That is somethi꧋ng extremely unaccept🔯able. The rules are black flag."