F1 Austrian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen - ‘When I’m not upset anymore, I won’t be interested anymore…’

Max Verstappen insists that he will always get “a bit upset” in his notoriously fiery team radio calls because it shows that “he cares”.
Max Verstappen (NLD)
Max Verstappen (NLD)

Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko had revealed how a psychologist was helping Yuki Tsunoda, of sister team AlphaTauri, who “explodes on the radio, you ಌwouldn’t believe it”.

Verstappen, whose own radio messages to Red Bull colleagues can be fractious, said that he has never u🌊sed a psychologist but will not stop showing🐻 emotion while driving.

“I didn’t work with anyone but, over the years, you look back at what you could have done better,” he sa♏id ahead of the F1 Austrian Grand Prix.

“It doesn’t help the whol⛦e team if you come in upset after a practice session because it makes everyone nervous.

“I still get a bit upset on the radio. It doesn’t influence my performance. But, if things 🌼don’t go well, if something is badly executed, then I have a problem.

“When the day comes that I am not up♋set about these things anymore, then I won’t be interested in the sport anymore.

ℱ“It is because I care that I sometimes get upset at these things.

“It is ♎not influencing my performance in the race.

“Some people ar♈e▨ more calm, some are more explosive.”

Yuki Tsunoda (JPN) AlphaTauri. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11, Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg, Austria, Preparation
Yuki Tsunoda (JPN) AlphaTauri. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11, Austrian Grand Prix,…

'Our problem child is Tsunoda!'

Verstappen was forced to settle for seventh at the F1 Britishᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Grand Prix at Silverstone👍 last week when a piece of debris from Tsunoda’s AlphaTauri became lodged in his Red Bull.

Marko, the Red Bull consultant, has since said to Servus TV about Tsunoda: “We have organised a kind 💮of psychologist to work with him, 🌺because he continued to rant in the corners, so that inhibits performance.

“We should keep our emotions in check. Th♕ank God Max is calm, our problem child in this respect, not only in this respect, is Tsunoda. He explodes on the radio, you wouldn’t believe it.”

Tsunoda revealed that he has always wo♈rked with a psychologist: “He was part of the reason I was able to step up to Formula 1. He helped me de♏velop my performance in terms of consistency.”

The Japanese driver has a new psychologist provided by Red Bull ❀and he said: “He has to understand more about myself and what diꩵrection we take.

“Definitely I get overheated, especially in my brain! In these situations he can make me better. I know that I have to improve mysꦅelf.”

Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) Ferrari. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, British Grand Prix, Silverstone, England, Race Day.-
Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) Ferrari. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, British Grand Prix,…

Sainz: 'Find the balance between agitated and calm'

Carlos Sainz, who won his first race at the 150th attempt at Silverstone last week, added: “If there is something I have learned, it is finding the balance between being agitated and cꦗalm. It comꦏes with experience.

“In my first years in F1 I was too calm and didn’t make my point, or too ex𓄧cited an𒁃d make no sense.”

Kevin Magn𝐆ussen added: “There is emotion. You get𒊎 annoyed, excited.

“If there is stuff that you can improve on, why not try🉐, by speaking to pe꧒ople in the team or friends or a psychologist.

“I can get angry, of course.

“I am a more emꩲotional person inside the car than outside of the car.”

Esteban Ocon said: “It is not easy to stay level-headed in the c🤡ar because, in these moments, you can lose everyth🍌ing or win everything.

“People react differently. The most importan💖t thing for us is to perform under these pressures🍌.”

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