“He pushed me off, man,” yelled Verstappen over the radio. “What the f***.”
MAX VERSTAPPEN said he was fortunate to avoid a high-speed shunt with Sergio Perez after accusing his Red Bull team-mate of forcing him off the road in Saturday’s sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix.
“The exit of Turn 1 was not really nice,” said Verstappen on his way back to the pits after he crossed the finish line 21 seconds clear of the Mexican.Verstappen was referencing the flashpoint between the Red Bull drivers which arrived after only a few hundred metres. Verstappen, late on the brakes, ran deep into the right-hander, but he managed to make the move stick. And this time, it was Perez who felt aggrieved.
The debrief continued into the weighing room as the teammates spoke for a couple of minutes before revealing their verdicts.“I had a very bad Turn 1 so I tried to protect [the lead] and once I realised he was there, I opened up the door and gave him the place back. It is all fine. We just spoke about it. The visibility was very bad out there.”
“It might have compromised the result but it didn’t,” said Verstappen. “We don’t need to make this a big story.
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