Max Verstappen and George Russell nearly came to blows on and off track in Qatar.
Max Verstappen ’s row with George Russell at the Qatar Grand Prix was “the last nail in the coffin” of their relationship, with “never much love lost between them.”Verstappen claimed pole position in Qatar last Saturday, but was hit with a rare one-place grid penalty and a single penalty point – taking the Red Bull driver halfway to a race ban – for “driving unnecessarily slowly on a cooldown lap.”
It is thought that Russell’s eagerness to see Verstappen penalised was driven by his concerns about starting on the dirty side of the grid in Qatar, having been left alarmed that cars in even-numbered grid slots struggled to get off the line at the start of Saturday’s sprint race. With Mercedes electing to start him on used tyres, however, Russell’s advantage was lost when Verstappen passed him at the first corner, with the Red Bull driver going on to collect his ninth victory of the F1 2024 season.
“Further than that, they’ll be looking to see where is a team making a mistake whether that’s in the pit lane, in the pit box during the pit stop. Everyone’s always trying to find an error your opposition is committing. “So nobody in this scenario feels that they’re going to compromise a driver behind them, because they’re all theoretically in the same situation.
“But it seems that whatever happened or whatever went down in there, Max said quite clearly he doesn’t want anything to do with George anymore.Karun Chandhok, the former HRT and Lotus Racing driver, claimed Verstappen was left “annoyed” by Russell “overexaggerating” the severity of the incident.
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