Max Verstappen on Lewis Hamilton practice block: “It’s not the first time…”
Max Verstapp꧋en has reacted to the blocking incident with Lewis Hamilton🔴 in FP2 at Imola.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen says it is "not the first time" he has been blocked by168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton after the pair's scuffle during second practice at the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
The 2021 title rivals clashed in FP2 on Friday at Imola when a slow-moving Hamilton got in Verstappen’s way during one of🍰 the Red Bull driver’s fast laps.
Hamilton appeared to🎃 immediately acknowဣledge responsibility for the near-miss as he gestured an apology to Verstappen, who cut in front of the Mercedes driver.
The pair did not make contact but Veꦉrstappen was visibly irked by Hamilton’s driv♕ing.
"It's not the first time,🧜” he told F1TV. “You try to, of course, always stay calm about it. But yeah, it happen🦂ed again.
"But at th🐬e other end, I don't want to really talk about it too much❀, because that's not our issue today.”
Verstappen was not the only driver who was annoyed by Hamilton's driving, with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fernando Alonso also taking aim at t🐎he seven-time world champion for a separate incident in the early stages of FP2.
The Aston Martin driver complained over team radioಌ: “Hamilton thinks that he's alone on the track!”
Verstappen endured an uncharacteristically difficult day 🌊as he struggled with his RB20 throughout both sessions.
The reigning world champion and championship leader ended the day seventh and over half a second adrift of the pacesetting Ferrari driven by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc. Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez was only eighth.
Verstappen admitted Red 𒆙Bull were “severely off th𝔍e pace” at Imola.
"A difficult day. Just difficult to gౠet a good balance and just not really feeling comfortable in the car, moving around a lot," Verstappen explained.
"It's very easy to lose the car, so we have a few things that ꧒we have to look at because today definitely. Just bad, just n♏ot comfortable. Also the long run was really bad.
“So definitely a few things that w🌳e have to improve if we want to be competitive tomorrow. Today we were just severely off✨ the pace that we need to fix.”
He added: "I guess it ca𒁏n't be worse than what we had today, right?
“We wil🐟l look at a few things that we can do be🐭tter for tomorrow. But yeah, it looks a bit like the others took a bit of a step forward. And from our side just a bad day.’'
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