Flustered Max Verstappen’s latest F1 radio rage amid late brake worries at United States GP
The Red Bull driver resisted a late charge from former title rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton to claim his 50th career victory in Sund🍌ay’s race at Austin.
But it was not all plain sailing for Verstappen, who encountered issues with his braking in the closing🐬 ꦰstages of the race.
On Lap 34, he was heard telling race e💯ngineer Gianpiero Lambiase: “Mate, these brakes are so **** compared to yeste🌟rday. What a piece of ****.”
Seven laps later, things got heated between the pair after Lambiase informed Verstappen of where he was losing time to teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez.
“Just info at this stage Max but time loss to Checo 39.8, braking 11, 12, 20,” Lambiase said, before Verstappen fired back: “Yeah I know my brakes are just **▨**.”
“As I say, it was just information,” came Lambiase’s reply.𝔍
Verstappen became increasingly flustered ✅in the last few laps as the problem appeared to worsen.
W♏hen told he was matching Hamilton’s pace, the three-time world champion said: “Please, no talking! I’m in the braking.”
Verstappen later snapped “no talking in the braking, man! ****” when Lambiase let him know Hamilton was just 3.6s behind three laps fr🥃om the end.
The Dutchman ultimately crossed the line 2.2 seconds ahead of Hamilton as he racked up his 15th win f🍒rom 18 races this season.
Explaining his brake woes after the race, Verstappen said: “I just couldn’t feel the brakes. I very easi▨ly locked the fronts and I tried to adjust it and it was locking the reaꦜrs.
“It was just somethin🤪g very weird because normally I don’t have issues with braking. So this is just something that we need to understand, because when you are locking fronts and rears you are killing also your tyres, so that definitely didn’t help.
“Yesterday [Saturday], the feeling I had with the car was really amazing. And today [Sunday], it was not that grea🐻t. But nevertheless we still won the race, so that's the most important.&nbs🉐p;
“And talking on the braking, when you're struggling already under braking and you don't feel that confident, I politely asked 🃏to not be spoken to. I said please when I asked!”
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