Horner Says Verstappen And Hamilton Battle In Brazil Was Just Hard Racing

Another race and flipside wrestle for the lead between the two championship contenders, how lucky are we! As Lewis Hamilton hunted lanugo Max Verstappen for that first place position, we all had a feeling it could be spicy, and we were right.

Speaking well-nigh the incident to Sky Sports F1, Verstappen said the incident was fair.

“We both braked really late into the corner, of course, trying to get the position. I think that one was pearly enough,” he concluded.

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Funnily enough, Max’s big superabound Christian Horner moreover well-set that the incident didn’t deserve any remoter action. Hardly a surprising confession, though!

“It’s two guys running hard. Lewis is going virtually round the outside. Max is going in deep. They’ve both gone wide.

“It would have been really unfair to penalise on that. If that was the other way around, I would have told my Sporting Director to have a moan well-nigh it, but I wouldn’t have expected really anything from it.

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“There is no wholesomeness gain. There is no contact been made, so I think it’s just nonflexible racing between the two of them. The stewards unquestionably made the right visualization on that. We have talked well-nigh this many many times well-nigh the ‘let them race’ mentality.

“You want to see the guys go nonflexible at it. You know, with Max, he is going the race hard. Lewis is exactly the same. That’s two guys fighting for a world championship.”

Do you agree, or should the incident have been investigated? Let us know in the comments.