Verstappen angry at stewards, deems Hamilton clash miscommunication

Max Verstappen was left wrestling at stuff penalized by the stewards when Lewis Hamilton tried to overtake him in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, but tabbed a later unpeace between the two a “miscommunication.”

Hamilton was attempting to overtake Verstappen lanugo the outside into Turn 1 and Verstappen braked late, with both drivers running wide in a similar situation to the incident in Interlagos three weeks ago. However, Verstappen was told to requite the place to Hamilton and slowed on the run to the final corner, but with Hamilton keen not to indulge his title rival a run on the pit straight he sat overdue him at low speed surpassing they collided.

“At one point, they told me I had to requite the position when so that was I think just surpassing (Turn) 22,” Verstappen said. “So then without 22/23 I went to momentum to the right side and I slowed down, I was braking, downshifting, and he just stayed super tropical overdue me and I don’t really understand why.

“I was just trying to let him by and I’m just going slower and slower and pulling the downshift. We had a miscommunication and he ran into the when of me, that was it.”

In Brazil, no investigation was deemed necessary when both cars went off track but Verstappen was later handed a five-second time penalty in Jeddah and says he doesn’t want to requite the stewards any airtime for their decisions.

“Confusing!” he said of the full race. “Third, starting first. Dropped to third, third to first, five-second penalty, second, finished second, touches, yeah, I don’t know. I don’t stipulate with all the decisions but I moreover don’t want to talk well-nigh it too much as I don’t think we need to talk well-nigh it. They don’t deserve any mentions.

“He had the run, a bit like Brazil, and of undertow I braked late and I got a little bit off line at one point and had a moment and went wide. But he didn’t moreover make the corner and we both basically missed the corner and I don’t think it’s pearly to then just say that I get a penalty. But yeah, it is what it is.”