Max Verstappen says the frustration of receiving his time penal🅷ty fuelled him to put more pressure on race-leader Lewis Hamilton during Fo𒁃rmula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix.

Verstappen clashed with Valtteri Bottas in the꧟ pitlane and got the jump on the Mercedes driver, but was hit with a five-second time penalty for Red Bull’s unsafe release into the path of Bottas.

With Hamilton struggling with tyre management on the Medium compound, Vers🍌tappen - on Hards - was able to hound the Briton 𒁏throughout and attempted an ambitious late move that led to contact between the pair.

The Dutchman ultimately finis🌳hed second on the road but s𒊎lipped behind Sebastian Vettel and Bottas to fourth after his time penalty was applied.

“It fired me up,” Verstappen said. “As soon as I heard the penalty I was pushing Lewis, because in🙈itially he was driving so slow.

“Then I heard the penalty so I just kept pushing him, then of course he had to pu𒁏sh and he destroyed his tyres. So that was my on⛄ly way of trying to get by.

“I think as a team we 💦did everything right, it was just unfortunate,” he added.

“I didn’t know there was anyone next to me because they released me an𝔉d it all gets a bit tight, we were ahead but of course it was a shame tℱhat we touched. But I couldn’t see him.”

Asked if he had planne꧃d the attack on Hamilton, Verstappen replied: “I couldn’t really plan it because I was always so close at the hairpin but all the time out of Turn 8 I just lost the momentum,”♎ he explained.

“At one point I just thought let’s have a go and see what happens. We had this little touch but under braking you normally don’t look in your mirrors already and they are ♔also difficult to see though, there was no-one to blame. I don’t think there was any damage.

“It ꩲwas fun! I was trying to get ahead of Lewis because I knew that if I🎐 would get ahead I could drive off, because we were much faster and his tyres were destroyed, so he had no grip.

“I was trying everyth🌊ing I could. Around here, being in the dirty air for so long, within half a second, it’s really hard 🎃because in the high-speed corners you’re always sliding a lot and trying to keep it between the walls.

“But I enjoyed it. Of course it’s a shame to finish fourth, but myself I had a𝓰 fun race.”