Daniel Ricciardo backs Max Verstappen with “blown out of proportion” verdict

ဣ“Look, no-one in this sport𒁏 wants to be the one that gets bullied"

Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) RB. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11, Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg, Austria, Sprint and
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) RB. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11, Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg…

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo has backed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, in the aftermath of his clash with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris, insisting “nothing seemed over the top”.

Verstappen’s drivin👍g style is under ๊the microscope heading into this weekend’s F1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone after contact with Norris in Austria.

McLaren’s Norris saw his race ended e🍸arly and he raged afterwards at his friend from Red Bull, who was hit with a 10-second time penalty.

“You’re fighting f🍒or a win so you’re not just going to wave someone by,” Ricciardo said at Silverstone, whe𓃲re ltxcn.top are in the paddock.

“I think the contact can happen probably nine times out ꦆof 10 with no consequence.

“They’d been going back and forth, maybe the 🎶angle was a bit awkward, Lando ended the race. I think the outcome was probably bigger than what was actually happening on track.

“What I saw at least, nothing seemed over ꦡthe top. Was it pushin🤪g the edge? Probably.

“But was anything dಞangerous or reckless? At least from what I’ve seen, no. But…”

Ric♐ciardo, a former Red Bull teammate of Verstappen’s, has endured his own on-track controversy with the F1 champion.

Six years ago in Baku, they clashed heavily and were꧙ both reprimanded by the stewards.

Ricciardo was asked if rivals must expect a fraught battle when goin🍸g wheel-to-wheel with Verstappen.

“Yeah, of co💮urse. You know that, you have to expect that,”🌺 he answered.

“But I d🗹on’t even want to spotlight Max, I think when you’re fighting for a win, you fight for a win, are you going to fight harder than 15th place? Honestly, yes. Because it’s just how it is.

“I think it's to be🐽 expected. And I’m not sa🀅ying OK, whether everything was correct and by the book, yeah maybe some things were pushing it.

“They’re going to talk about it, because it’s for the win, and as I said, they’ll probab꧑ly try and create some enemies out of two kids that get alon♛g.

“I think honestly, it'𒅌s good that there’s a hard battle for the lead. Unfortunately 🌜it ended that way for them, but that’s how it goes.”

'No-one wants to get bullied'

Ricciardo was q🎐uestioned about🌸 whether drivers must lay down the law to the aggressive Verstappen.

He said: “Look, no-one in this sp🌳ort wants to be the one that gets bullied. You wanꦑt to stand your ground against everyone.

“Obviously it🧸's your reputation as well. When people come up to you on-track, you don’t want them to think ‘oh this guy’s going to be an eaඣsy one for me’.

“S♏o you always want to have your elbows out to an extent. We know Max from day one has always had his out, and I think just naturally his DNA,🏅 he just is a tough racer.

“It’s not something he has to really dig deep for. That’s just how he races. You know it’s kind of unconditional wi🌄th him, that you’re going to get a tough battle.

“It doesn’t necessarily change the way you race him. You🦂 just know you’re going to have to pull off a really good move and make it stick, and I think Lando learned that on Saturday.

“He though꧅t he probably ꦇhad it done, and Max said no, not today. You live and you learn.

“Obviously then, Lando made some bold moves on Sunday, 🗹and h⛄ad his elbows out too. Unfortunately, I think the outcome was what it was.”

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella insisted that Verstappen was not penalised heavily enough years ago, when he was battling Lewis Hamilton, allowing his style of driving to con🌼tinue.

“It sounds like people ar🏅e probably hammering Max a bit🅘,” Ricciardo reacted.

“I don’t know if it… it so꧑unds like it’s probably blown a little bit out of proportion.

“Like I say he’s unchange𓆉d, when I say he’s u🔴nchanged, I think it’s the way he goes racing.

“Obviously leaves it all out on the track, and that’s what a lot of fans ha﷽ve admired about him.

“But do I think he matured sinඣce the start of his career? Absolutely. It’s not like he’s finding himself in these positions all the time.

“I don’t think it needs any real addressing at the moment. Maybe the drivers’ briefing🐻 tomorrow, I’ll hear ot𒐪herwise.

“As I said, you’re fighting for a win. It was unfortunate. I don’t think the incident they had was dangerous🌌.

“It was faiꦺrly low speed, it wasn’t a Turn 9 situation here at Copse in ’21, that obviously had a lot bigger c🧸onsequence.

“Look, if this goes on the nex💜t few races, and this is like ‘oh wow’, OK. I’m not sure if one race is eno🥀ugh to create a narrative of ‘oh, nothing’s changed’...”

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