What did Max Verstappen say to Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso in the cool down room after F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix?
His Red Bull teammate Sergio Per🌃ez won the race from pole position, but Verstappen cut through the field to claim P2 after starting i🍸n 15th, while Aston Martin’s Alonso completed the podium.
Verstappen said in the cool down room: “It wasn’t easy in the beginning. 𓂃Just following the other cars through the sec🌜tors. You lose so much because of the tail impact.”
Alonso asked: “Did the Safety Car help you😼 a lot?”
Verstappen: “Y💫es. I would say. I would have caught up, but it made it easier.”
Perez: “Did you get the fastest lap, in the end?”
ꦐVerstappen nods and said: “On the last lap, yeah.”
The champion added: “I asked what the fastest lap was, and I think it was a tꦯenth faster.”
Alonso: “Do you know what you did?”
Verstappen: “31.9.”
The dominance of the Red Bulls - who finished two seconds clear of the rest - was an ominous sight in the second൩ race of 2023.
Verstappen was v🐷ying to become only the second driver ever, after Alonso at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, to win from 15th but was denied by a composed drive from his teammate.
Alonso bജriefly overtook Perez at the start of the race, but the Mexi🅠can regained his position on the fourth lap.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports,ꦇ tꩲo football, to F1.
