Verstappen’s brand radio after the controversy with Hamilton in Madring: “This is Mickey-Mouse racing”

It was clear that if we wanted to advance in the Spanish GP we had to take risks on the way out because Madring It does not offer any overtaking points. The pilots tried to look for that maneuver at the start but two in parallel did not fit in the first chicane, so the pilots combined.or Kimi Antonelli or Max Verstappen They had to use the loophole.

Both the Italian from Mercedes and the Dutch from Red Bull were forced to return first and third position respectively. In fact, Antonelli immediately let Norris pass him again once he returned to the track. Instead, it took Verstappen several laps before the team asked him to give way to Hamilton. “What are you talking about, guys? If we stayed on the track, we would both be left out,” he complained on the radio about what they asked him from the wall.

Verstappena few laps later after returning the podium place, sand took advantage of Hamilton’s brake problems to be able to gain position again from the Ferrari and that is where Max, true to his style, left a radio to remember. “Now you can give me my position back, what a piece of shit. This is Mickey-Mouse racing“. A message that did not come out because of the television production, for whatever reason.

Later, at the FIA ​​press conference with the three drivers on the podium, Verstappen continued to defend that he did what he did because otherwise they would both touch each other and neither of them would have been able to continue with the race.

“I would have suffered damage at the beginning if I had stayed on the track, so the victory would not have been possible either. It’s as simple as that. I just did my thing in Turn 1, but Lewis tried to overtake in the first two corners and bottomed out on the curb, so he jumped back onto the track, which is why I had to go off the track.. If I had stayed there, there would undoubtedly have been contact. “So my race could have ended at Turn 2, and that’s why I think, as things are now, I’m happy with my position,” he said in closing.