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Verstappen had no words with Marko and Horner after mistake: "What can you say?"
- GPblog.com
With less than half an hour before the Hungarian Grand Prix was due to start, Max Verstappen parked his RB16 in the wall. He managed to bring the car back to the team, but at that moment a race against the clock started. His mechanics were able to fix it in time. Was Verstappen himself under high voltage at that moment?
"No, I was very calm. I was like ‘let’s see if they are going to make it’ and if not then that’s it, that’s the race done, and the whole disappointing weekend would have been completed, you know. But they did an amazing job, so I was really fired up to get back in the car and show them that the effort was not for nothing, let’s say it like that. Yeah, crazy. It was a crazy 10 to 12 minutes."
No words with Horner and Marko
When Verstappen tells a little later what exactly had to be replaced on the steering rod, Lewis Hamilton reacts with astonishment: "Did they do that in twelve minutes?" Both drivers are very impressed by the work of the Red Bull Racing mechanics. At such a moment there is nothing left but a thank you. Also with Christian Horner and Helmut Marko there was no more altercation at that moment.
"I didn’t speak to them. I just shook hands before the race once I sat in the car, when the car was prepared – repaired. I mean, what can you say? You can have a whole conversation but I hit the wall, there is damage, try to fix the damage and then we’ll see."