Verstappen: "I didn't think I was driving too offensively at all"
21:46, 16 Nov 2020
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Max Verstappen doesn't believe he was too offensive during the Turkish Grand Prix. Many pundits had expressed their frustration with the Red Bull man, suggesting he was maybe too aggressive in his pursuit of Sergio Perez, where he eventually spun out.
"We really had a drama start, we're just doing something wrong there," said Verstappen in 'Peptalk' on Ziggo Sport. "We have too much vibration from the engine and therefore we have more wheel spin. You don't see that at a normal start, because the grip is quite high, but on tracks like this with this asphalt those problems do come to the surface I also had an anti-stall."
Verstappen did not think this was his worst race
"First of all, they are clearly not connoisseurs. Of course they don't know what was going on. After the race we found out that the position of the wing was seven degrees wrong. Normally you only change it by a quarter or half a degree, so I drove with a lot of understeer."
"I didn't think I was driving too offensively at all. I'm just doing what I've been doing for the last two years. Of course I've learned a lot. in the last couple of years, but I didn't think I was doing anything weird."
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