Red Bull driver struggling to handle threat of resurgent McLaren team
Max Verstappen was not happy with his Red Bull team in Hungary as his grip on the F1 title loosens. Photograph: Mark Thompson/Getty ImagesFormula One wants gladiatorial drivers, sportspeople set apart, racing on the edge in the heat of battle, so it might be considered a little rich when the sport clutches at its pearls in distaste over’s vehement swearing at last week’s Hungarian Grand Prix. It is impossible not to sense that the affront at his bad language is rather missing the point.
With at least some sense of comic timing, his final word on the matter when it was put to him that critics believed he had gone too far and been disrespectful to his team, was pithy. “They can all f**k off,” he said.
In 2022 Verstappen and the car were dominant, while last year he had 19 wins from 22 races. He has not been even moderately threatened by his team-mate Sergio Pérez, who is unlikely to be on Red Bull’s books after F1′s summer break, which begins after Spa. This weekend he and Red Bull face another test as he incurs a 10-place grid penalty for taking his fifth engine of the season, one more than the regulation four. The team opted to take the potential points damage in Belgium because of the propensity for overtaking at the track.
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