It was in⛄itially thought that he made a subtle movement which took his Red Bull outside of his grid position, giving him an unfair head-start over his rivals in the last-gasp das𓆉h to the finish.

Verstappen eventually won a chaotic and confusing conclusion in Melbourne but there was nothing wrong with the way🦹 he did it.

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David Croft explained on Sky: "🌌There are people on social media saying Verstappen should have got a penalty for the final restart for being out🍎side of his grid box. He wasn’t, I’ve seen the photos.

"His front tyres were making contact with the line. If you’re over the line it is a penalty. If you’re touching it, as𒊎 he was, then you’re fine."

Karun Chandhok added: "In his grid box, in first gear, ✅he moved further forwards. People are wondering: ‘Did he ▨move out of his grid box?’

"Howev🐎er, even in 𒁃that second movement, his tyre was still making contact with the line."

Crofty explained that breaking the rule wouldꦡ involve "any part of the contact patch of the front tyres is outside of the lines at the time of the start 🐻signal".

The Red Bull driver explained the incident:&ꦑnbsp;“To be honest I braked a bit late and then I lost my ref🔯erence a bit.

“Then I looked and sa🎃w that I had a bit more space so moved a little bit more forward and it was really on the limit. But on the limit is on the limit, it’s not over the limit.

“The sun was also ꦓquite difficult in the end, with the visibility. It was quite tou✱gh.”