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Hamilton: Immaturity costing Verstappen

14:32, 09 Apr 2018

byJake Williams-Smith

The two made contact early on during the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton believes that immaturity is costing Max Verstappen so far in 2018. The pair came to blows in the early stages of the race in Sakhir with Verstappen sustaining damage that would eventually cause his retirement from the race.

The Mercedes driver has said that his approach to racing so far this season is costing himself and his team good results.

“He’s a young driver, he’s going to be learning all the time, he’s got fantastic pace. But as youngsters we don’t always make the right decisions.

“It’s interesting to hear from Christian (Horner) because they’ve got a car that should be getting good results and through these kind of – I don’t know if they’re inexperienced or not potentially mature decisions – they’re not getting the results they would have. Today he should have finished a decent race really because he’s good enough to do that.

“And I think to myself if Fernando (Alonso) was in that car today he would have finished a decent race and got points for Red Bull. I like to think if I was in the car today I’d’ve got points for Red Bull. I just hope that he is learning through whatever situation he is going through. I went through that stuff when I was younger so I know how it is and it’s easy to also get ahead of yourself and forget also to respect the other guy’s situation.”