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Red Bull’s tone ‘shows it knew Verstappen was at fault’

by Phillip Horton
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Red Bull’s tone ‘shows it knew Verstappen was at fault’

Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB16B and Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W12 crash at the first chicane. Italian Grand Prix, Sunday 12th September 2021. Monza Italy.

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Red Bull’s tone in the immediate aftermath of the clash between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton showed it knew the Dutchman was to blame, according to Mercedes’ trackside engineering chief Andrew Shovlin.

Verstappen and Hamilton came together at the Italian Grand Prix shortly after the Mercedes driver emerged from his pit stop.

The duo tangled and wound up in the gravel trap, from where they were both forced into retirement, with stewards deeming Verstappen culpable.

He will take a three-place grid penalty into the next event in Russia.

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In the immediate aftermath of the incident Verstappen described the situation as “unfortunate” while team boss Christian Horner labelled it a racing incident.

“We obviously felt strongly that Lewis had done absolutely nothing wrong and Max was the one predominantly to blame,” said Shovlin.

“I think if you look at the fact even Helmut [Marko] and Christian weren’t trying to blame Lewis it sort of feels like they know Max is in the wrong because they will try to blame Lewis at any opportunity.

“I think it cost Lewis a win and certainly a second place so you’ll always feel three places is relatively easy to overcome if you’ve got a competitive car.”

Shovlin nonetheless accepted Mercedes needs to step up its own performance after a weekend in which it finished first and second in qualifying but came away with only a third-place finish.

“That’s all in the past now, we need to make sure we put a good weekend together in Russia,” he said.

“We’ve had pretty messy races for quite a long time now and really the team needs to not get distracted and deliver the kind of performance we know we can and know we need to [in order] to win these championships.”

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Comments 2

  1. Robert Steele says:
    4 years ago

    Verstappen Is a very dangerous driver I have said that from the start he takes too many risks
    And will cause serious injury to someone at some stage

    Reply
    • Martin Elliott says:
      4 years ago

      He did modify his driving style from the first couple of seasons, but still forced others to ‘back out’ too often.

      In fact he used that reputation in the past couple of years. Now he id competing for WDC he’s finding some drivers don’t need to back out, especially in a ‘push’ situation.

      Remember how quickly he got licence points earlier on; he’s now a leader in all (inc expired) points total, along with other ISC penalties such as attending the Stewards Annual Workshop.

      Reply

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