Russell ꦗand Verstappen had minor contact on two separate occ💮asions on Lap 1 of the sprint, ultimately giving the Red Bull driver damage.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:According to Christian Horner, the damage to Verstappen’s sidepod cost him approximately 0.7s in lap time as he finished behind Sergiඣo Perez and Charles Leclerc൲.

Verstappen was quick to voice his frustrations in parc ferme, exchanging words with Russell about what had happened 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:before calling him a ****head.

Giving ༒his side of the story, Russell was surprised Verstappen tried to defend the position so hard by posit⛦ioning his car on the outside.

"I was down the inside and I think as a driver💟 you know the risks when you're on 💮the outside,” Russell said. 

“I'm here to fight, I'm here to 𝐆win and I'm no💯t going to hold back just because he's leading the championship.

"I was quite surprised he was st෴ill trying to hold it around the outside. It's a street circuit and he has a lot more to lose than I have. 

“None of the contact was intentional, I was d💎oing my best to try and have a clean fight. I was🍒 quite surprised he was resisting the position, I was on the inside.”

Russell didn’t understand why Verstappen was “so angry” afterwards given that he was still a🍌ble to finish inside the top three.

"I was su🌃rprised why he was so angry to be honest. He still finished the race in P3. 

“He's got enough experience to know🐷 that if you're trying to overtake a guy on the outside tꦿhere's a risk the guy on the inside is going to run wide into you.

"I don't think anything ꦬwould've been any different had the positions been reversed.”