Max Verstappen, rags fly: all the insults and barbs with Red Bull
A Sunday when nerves seem to have blown up.
Max Verstappen experienced on the treacherous Hungaroring one of the most difficult days of his career, at least since he è arrived in Red Bull. Fifth at the finish line of the Hungarian Grand Prix, the three-time world champion argued tightly (and at times vulgarly) with the race wall for the entire race, only to receive a dry response from his track engineer Giampiero Lambiase that could also have consequences for his relationship with the team.
Already in recent weeks, coinciding with Red Bull’s decline, Verstappen had not failed to emphasize his disappointment with the team. In the Magyar Sunday forò the whole thing è exploded right from the start, when the Dutchman è went wide at the first corner and begrudgingly returned the second position to Norris. "Then it's okay to throw the others out," he è complained in a Team Radio with Lambiase.
His nervousness è continued throughout the race, whether over set-up, tire grip, strategy and even driving advice. Finished behind Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc after the last pit stop, Verstappen è blurted out to Lambiase uttering in two sentences at least four expressions that the Formula 1 director had to censor. Then the complaint after contact with the eternal rival's Mercedes, to which the Red Bull engineer replied: "I am not going to argue on the radio with the other teams, man. The stewards will take care of it. Behaving like thatì on the radio è as children, as children".
Heavy and unprecedented words, certifying a balance in the Red Bull house as precarious as it has been in years. Verstappen himself, at the microphones of 'Autosport', did not, however, take any step backwards: "I do not understand whyé when I speak on the radio I cannot be direct. If someone doesn't like this, stay home" were his words followed by yet another improper remark. And so, even with the engines off, the climate è really tense.
