F1 legend Juan Pablo Montoya has sided with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen’s claim that th🀅ere’s an element of ‘Bri🦹tish bias’ in the sport.

Verstappen has grown increasinܫgly frustrated with the officiating in F1 1, particulꦺarly following a number of penalties he’s received in recent rounds.

Most notably, Verstappen was hit with a 10-second time penalty for colliding with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri at the first corner in Abu Dhabi.

This promꩵpted an aggressive radio message from Verstappen, where he took a shot at the s✨tewards.

Verstappen said over team radio: “Can we ask for 20 seco🉐n🔴ds? Stupid idiots.”

The Dutchman believes thඣe broadcasters are part of the problem as well.

He told the Press Association earlier this year: “The problem in F1 is that🔯 80 to 85 per cent of the media is British. And I did feel that some things which were written about me were not fair.

“I am not going to sit here and single out one broadcaster, but I just had to laugh about what was said. I was like: ‘𓆏Whatever.’

“At the end of the day, ye𓂃s, [I have four titles] and they are the ones in front of a microphone.”

Montoya relates to Verstappen’s complaints

Montoya, who raced in F1 in the early 2000s, admitted he could “identify with it so much” when he heard V🎃erstappen’s remark about having the “wrong passport”.

Montoya told : “I think the right question is, whether🍸 Mohammed Ben Sulayem is trying 🍷to clean the house? If you're really the body that controls the rules and does everything, there cannot be any favouritism.

“I watched the Qatar GP in English. Lando made the mistake of no𝓀t lifting and they, the commentators, go, ‘It's outrageous that he gets a penalty.’ Or if Lando makes a mistake, they say, ‘Oh that’s very rare.

“Look at when Checo Perez spins. Looking at it from the outside, you asꩲk, ‘He spun, but he doesn’t have any drive in the car. Did he really just spin, or did something fail in the car when he gassed it?’

“Because there's no reason for the car not to work a🥀fter you spin. He didn't hit anything. But automatically tꦐhe British commentators go, ‘He just spun. It's just a lack of talent. He shouldn't be driving.’

“When Max sa🥂id that he had the ‘wrong passport’ I could identify myself with 🐼it so much.”

“You get a reputation”

Like Verstappen, Montoya was f♒iercely aggress♉ive and not afraid to push the boundaries when it came to wheel-to-wheel racing on track.

The Colombian driver previously questioned the stewards’ severiꦏty of the penalties handed out to Verstappen in Mexico.

Montoya feels there’s “always been inconsistency” when it co⛦mes to decision-making by stewards in F1.

“I do agree there's ꦗalways been inconsistency,” he explained. “If the FIA don’t like you, normally what happens with a race steward is that if you are penalised for an incident, the next time 🌼you're there, 90 per cent of the time even if you're innocent they're going to penalise you because you have previous history.

“In their mind, they🦄 cannot erase what you did before. You get a reputation. Even if you already paid t🔯he penalty.

“It’s like if you’ve stolen some money and you go to jail📖, you leave jail, money goes missing somewhere, and the next time a cop catchꦇes you, they're going to assume you did it. That's the deal.”