Damon Hill blasts ‘poor loser’ Max Verstappen for “salty” F1 sprint race criticism
Verstapp😼en stepped up his criticism of F1’s sprint weekend format after a new stand🌼alone version of the event debuted in Baku.
Traditional qualifying for the grand prix has been m🐬oved back to Friday with a new ‘Shootout’ session added to the schedule on Saturday morning to determine the grid for the Sprint race, which no longer impacts Sunday.
♏But after finishing third in the first sprint race of 2023, the reigning world champion, who previously said the format goes against the “DNA of F1”, urged the series to “scrap the whole thing”.
Responding to Verstappen’s press conference comments, 1996 world champ💯ion Hill said:“We should just give Max Verstappen the championship and just not bother with anything else.
“Salty. Poor loser. It’s the same competition♓. He should be thinking about tomorrow and the championship and putting it behind him.”
‘Verstappen stubborn like Schumacher and Senna’
Verstappen was involved in a post-race spat with Mercedes168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:’ George Russell after the pair made contact on the opening laꦛp of the sprint race.&nbꦑsp;
B🍌attling over third place, Russell and Verstappen twice came to blows before Russell emerged ahead coming out of Tur⛎n 3.
Verstappen later repassed Russell to take third at a Safety Car restart but was left aꦉngry🎀 about the incident.
His frustrations boiled over in parc ferme when he labelled Russell a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“dickhead”.
Hill said Verstappen’s ‘stubborness’ reminds him of fellow multiple world champions 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ayrton Senna.
“Tಞhis is the sort of mindset ☂you see in the sort of people like [Michael] Schumacher and [Ayrton] Senna, they will not accept that they have any part to play in stuff that happens,” Hill explained.
"If you cast your mind back to le🅷t’s say Monza, with Lewis Hamilton, he just didn’t back ou🧜t of the corner. So he’s done it himself.
"He’s a hard racer, they’re both hard racers, George and Max, a🍬nd this is what happ🃏ens when you get a rock and a hard place together.”
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