Max Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase names reasons for their fiery radio exchanges

Despite the Red Bull’s driver su⛄ccess over the past three seasons, their conversations while he’s on the rꦫace track can often become heated.
In Belgium this year, Verstappen complained: "We should have just pushed two laps in a row like I sa♔id.”
Lambiase responded: “You are through Max.”
Verstappen snapped: “Yeah I don’t give a f*** if we’re P10. It’s ༒just shit executi♛on.”
Lambia🙈se hit back: “OK, and then when ♕the track was two seconds quicker on the final lap and you had no energy left, how would that have gone down?”
Lambiase told about the manner of their radio mes♛sages: "He doesn't want it any other way.
“He is to the point, that's how he was raised. An🌳d he is not at all ou𒅌t to walk all over you.
"Honesty and being yourself is crucial to working productively and efficiently. If you start wondering whether you should say something becauseꦇ otherwise he might get angry, then you are on to a lost cause.
"You have to be able to trust each other blindly and also keep an eye o♔n t✤he mental and emotional aspects.
“🦹It's not just a𓆏bout the car, but also about how someone handles their talent and emotions."

Lambiase, who previously worked with Giancarlo Fisichella, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Paul di Resta,🅰 Sergio Perez and Daniil Kvyat, has been alongside Verstappen throughout the driver’s F1 journey.
Lambiase was told that Verstappen has suggested he’d quit if his race engineer ev🌠er left, but he replied: "It's nice that he says that, but there's no way his F1 career would be over if I walked out of here tomorrow.
"If we no longer work together, 𝕴I will take on another challenge.
“It would not be fair to try to emulate with a new driver🀅 what I have🎉 done with Max since 2016.
“This is something very special f🎀or me an🦄d that won't happen again."
Verstappen came 🎉fifth and sixth in the F1 championship in his first two years driving a Red Bull.
"In those♌ years he learned a lot from the difficult moments, to the point where in 2021 he realised that he mainly had to manage race finishes and that he couldn't afford DNFs,” Lambiase said.
“And with that title in his pocket, he can now 𒉰judge how many risks he has to take.
“He now also knows that he doesn't always hav🎐e to be the 1෴05 percent version of himself."