Max Verstappen takes shot at F1 stewards with “investigated straight away” jibe

"Aℱnd I know that, of course, if I wouldn't have lifted, it would have been investiಌgated straight away."

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen has claimed he “would have been investigated straight away” if he committed the same offence 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris did in the F1 Qatar Grand Prix.

During the middle of the Qatar GP, Verstappen noticed that Norris had significantly gained time downꩵ the start-finish straight when double-waved yellow fla🎐gs were out.

Verstappen rᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeported over team radio: “Check if he lifted for the yellow. There was a yellow in the middle of 😼the straight.”

His r🧸ace engineer Gianpiero Lambiase quickly confirmed that Norris hadn’t lifted.

It was soon ඣinvestigated by the F1 stewards and Norris was hit with a hefty 10-second stop-go penalty.

The penalty dropped Norris to the back of the field before finishing 10t🐈h.

Speaking in the FIA press conference after the race on Sunday, Verstappen felt 𝓰that if he had been speeding under yellow flags - like Norris did - it would 💛have been investigated without any intervention from a fellow driver.

“Well, I mean, I knew that I lifted because I saw the double yellow,” he said. “And I know that, of course, if I wouldn't have lifted, it would have been investigated straight away. So you're just on it. I mean, yeah,൲ I asked if he lifted because he had a DRS, I think, from a backmarker at the same time as well.

And then, of c🥃ourse, w🅷hen we came out of Turn 1, I saw that he was a lot closer.

“So I just asked the team to check i🐓t. I mean, it was just a normal question. And I know, of course, with double yellows, they're quite 💦strict.”

Verstappen left frustrated in Qatar

While Verstappen clinched his ninth F1 victory of the season - and his first dry weather win since the Spanish Grand Prix - he was still left frustrated by Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell.

Verstappen wasꦑ handed a one-place grid penaltyꦦ after qualifying after the stewards felt he had been driving unnecessarily slow in Q3, while also getting in the way of Russell.

The penalty for Verstappen was 🐼peculiar given that driving too slowly in qualifying is rarely punis🎶hed, plus Russell, who he had ‘impeded’, wasn’t even on a flying lap.

Verstappen💯🐼 was also irked by Russell’s behaviour in the stewards’ room.

The four-time world champion said he had “lost all respect” for Russell after the Br🅰itish driver pushed for Verstappen to receive a penalty.

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