Max Verstappen blames F1 race control for ‘creating own problems’ in Australian GP restart chaos
The reigning world champion won Sunday’s triple red-flagged race which ended in bizarre fashion to increase his early championship lead over Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez.
- Verstappen beats Hamilton to win chaotic Australian GP
- Explained: Why wild Auℱstralian GP ended the wa🅠y it did
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen’s crash with four laps to go prompted a decis🍃ion to r💎ed flag the race and set up a two-lap sprint to the finish. Mayhem at the restart resulted in yet another suspension, before the race eventually ended with one lap behind the Safety Car.
Verstappen described the conclusion in Melbourne as a “mess” and accuse🅺d race control of bring😼ing the chaos on themselves.
“I think it's quite clear, I jꦅust didn't understand why we needed a red🌺 flag,” the Red Bull driver said.
“I think if you would have had a Safety Car and tཧhen just had a normal rolling start we wouldn't have had all these shunts and🐠 then you have a normal finish.
“So the꧟y crea♌ted the problems themselves at the end of the day.”
Verstappen felt the incident could have covered by a Virtual Safꦺety Car or Safety Car and expects the subject to be brought up ahead of the next race in Baku.
"I think that could have been done with a Virtual Safety Car or a Safety Car at worst,” he said. “But yeah, we'll talk about it. I think it left a lot of drivers confused, why we neede⛎d a red flag.”
Aston Martin’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, who benefitted from the reꦛd flag💫 to finish third after seemingly being taken out at the final restart, admitted he was “surprised” by the decision.
“I think the FIA has more informa𒉰tion than us. So if there is a red flag, it has to be for a reason,” the Spaniard added.
“The FIA are the only ones that have all the cards on the ♓table so in those kinds of situations, we trust them, and we ꧃try to keep them going.”
Mercedes driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell said the first red flag was “totally unnecessary” - though it🅘 is worth noting he lost out as a result of it.
“I don’t really know what’s going on with some of the decisions,” the directo🌳r of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) said.
“We are all trying to wo🐲rk together with the FIA to improve things but it is a bit of a challeng⛦e.”
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