Max Verstappen's furious Bahrain GP F1 radio outburst in full
Aꦐfter m🦩aking his third pit stop on Lap 44, Max Verstappen reported a strange steering issue to his Red Bull Formula 1 race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase.
Max Verstappen: “Mate, my st🦩eering wheel is suddenly very heavy. I almost can’t steer.”
Gianpiero Lambiase: “Let me know if you need to box Max”
MV: “Just fu----- tell me what's wrong and how to handle🐼 it.”
GP: “Max, Is the wheel heavy in both directions? Both left hand an♊d right hand✅?”
MV: “Everywhere, everywhere. It’s no🧔t even smooth. I have to ---- even on the straights.”
The Safety Car was deployed on Lap 46 due to Pierre Gasly’s stricken Alpha💎Tauri but Red Bull kept꧒ Verstappen out.
GP: “We are st💜aying out. We d🐷on’t believe it’s a reliability concern at this stage.”
After the Safety Car restart, Verstappen’s pace dropped as he fell int🌟o the clutches of Carlos Sainz before trundling into the pit lane at the end of Lap 54 to retire from the race.
MV: “What’s going on with the battery?”
GP: “The battery is fine”
MV: “It’s not, what the fuck is this?”
GP: “We can see the issue, Max, it’s notℱ battery-related.”
MV: “What do you want me to do?”
GP: “There’s not🐎 a lot we can do. Try to make it into the pit lane Max.”
Up until his third pit stop, it hadꦕ been a solid race for the reigning champion as he was on course to finish second behind🤡 eventual race winner Charles Leclerc.
Verstappen took the lead on multiple🔥 occasions but couldn’t maintain it as Leclerc’s ‘clever’ defence kept him out front.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner suspect🍷s the issue which affected both Verstappen and teammate Sergio Perez was related to the fuel system.
Explaining h🐲is angry outbursts after the race, 𝔍Verstappen said: “I’ve been angrier before. I don’t hold back, I say what I think in the car. I was not happy with what we were doing or the balance of the car I had, the strategy.
“It was not necessarily directed to GP, I have a really good relationship with him, but he’s the only one I can talk to. We have to a🌜nalyse quite a few things.”
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