Verstappen was left fuming at 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell after the pair made contact as they battled for third place on the opening lap of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix sprint, before branding the Mercedes driver as a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“d***head”🔥 during a post-race war of wor🐻ds. 

Davidson, who took part in 24 grand prix for Minardi, BAR and Super Aguri and is now a simulator driver for Mercedes, reckons the incident highlighted the one weaknes🔴s of Verstappen’s racing tactics. 

And Davidson believes the two-time world champion could “take a leaf out of” Hamilton’s approach of “playing the long game” when he enjoyedꦚ a spell driving a dominant car. 

“Max now having the♌ car he has, Red Bull are the dominant ♈team, and he’s spent many a year in a car that wasn’t a dominant car,” Davidson told Sky Sports News. 

“He was fighting the likes of Mercedes that had that level of performance that🐻 he wished he had. So back in the day, like 2020, when he would he be fighting the superior car of the Merc✱edes, he would go for moves where he would take risks. 

“He would send the car down the inside of Lewis 🤪Hamilton because that was his one chance to get in front of a Mercedes and then try and hold them up - the only chance he had really to try and🐲 win the race. 

“But we still ๊see him drive sometimes - and Baku was one of those races - with that same approach. 

“He was saying [to Russell] ‘look, if you drive liᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚke ꦓthat, if you send the car down the inside, then expect it in the future from me in return. 

“I would say that’s the last thing now that Max has to just polish up. He’s still a young driver and he’s still getting b꧋etter, which is quite worrying for the competition that he’sꦑ so good.

“It’s the one thing he needs to fiꦡx and learn from. Take a leaf out of Lewis Hamilton in many ways when Lewis was in a dominant car. 

“He would 💮give up a position on track to then get it back later on anyway because he had the car to do so. And Lewis would always see the bigger picture and play the long game. 

“I think that’s the only thing that Max can tidy up going forward, because there was need to fighღt George quite as hard as he did so early on in 𓆏the sprint race, because he was going to sail past anyway with the level of performance he has in that Red Bull. 

“I think he has to understand the car and the advantage he has this year over the competition. His main focus is S𒁃ergio Perez.”

After finishing second to Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez in Baku,ဣ Verstappen’s championꦗship lead over the Mexican has been trimmed to six points.