“There was no champagne, it wouldn’t have been fun”. With this ‘loophole’ Max Verstappen explained why he dropped out of the podium after the national anthems by not attending the Lewis Hamilton party. Between the two most probably today in Jeddah any kind of respect was ‘broken’ at the end of a race in which everything happened. The culmination of the tension was Hamilton’s rear-end collision during lap 38, when Verstappen tried to give way to the World Championship leader at a favorable point for the Dutchman to counterattack immediately. Hamilton, perhaps grasping the intentions of the opponent, did not ‘accept’ Verstappen’s offer, up to the collision between the two with reciprocal damage that did not prevent the cars from finishing the race with Hamilton in front of Max who also started the fastest lap which eliminates the Dutchman’s advantage in view of Abu Dhabi.
“Did the FIA manage the race well? No, I do not think. We have different opinions. But ultimately I’m not surprised. But I don’t want to talk too much either, because it’s not up to me. I was trying to brake to let him pass and at a certain point he it hit me. I looked in the mirrors and tried to get him through, so I don’t really understand. There was confusion, but they told me to give the location. Move me? I was already off the line, so I don’t know. If he didn’t do it for the DRS area then to my advantage? They told me to let him through, I did. Excessive tension before Abu Dhabi? Maybe or maybe not. For my part, no. Clearly we are on equal points and it will be exciting, but we all want to win “, commented at the end of the race the current leader of the World Championship for effect in the nine victories to eight against Lewis Hamilton.
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