Christian Horner has responded to Andrea Stella’s criticism of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen following the Austrian Grand Prix, citing “high emotions” as the reason for the McLaren F1 boss’ comments.

R﷽ed Bull🤡 and McLaren saw their lead drivers collide on Lap 64 of the Austrian GP.

🥀Verstappen veered slightly left in the braking zone at Turn 3 resulting in contact, with the pairღ picking up punctures.

While Verstappen was handed a 10-second time penalty for hiꦗs role in the incident, he still extended his lead in the championship as Norris was forced to retire.

The incident left Stella frustrated, stating that Verstappen’s aggressive driving was due to him not being punished correctly in 2021 against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton.

Speaking to Sky Sports after FP1 at Sil𝄹verstone, Horner was asked about Stella’s comments and seemingly fired a dig at the Italian.

“I haven’t heard all of what he said,” Horner said. “The stew𓂃ards have a job to do. They award penalties when they feel someone’s committed something wrong.

“They felt that😼 Max had obviously moved so gave him a 10-second penalty. Obviously there’s always a lot of emotioཧn running high after the race.

“I can onl🀅y imagine it’s not a posi🐼tion Andrea has been in before so maybe there were some high emotions running.”

Horner's stance on the incident itself remains unchanged, describing it as “hard racing between the two of 🃏them”.

“Not really. It’s hard racing between the two of them,” he added. “I think you can see the two of them have spoken about it. It’s been rode back a little bit from where Lando’s positions back understaꦚndably with the emotion following the race.

“I am sure we’re going to see more h♉ard racing between the two of them through the second half of the year. You learn from it, you m🌺ove on.”

Horner feels the dynamic between Verstappen and Norris has intensified over the last few rꦚaces, starting out in Barcelona.

At the start of the race, Norris pushed Verstappen onto the grass at the start, which allowed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell to get a run on them before taking the lead.

“For me that incident started a week earlier on the run down to Turn 1 in Barcelona where Lando ꦆhad him on the grass,” he explained.

Martin Brundle then questioned 🐻Horner about whether Austria wa✃s payback for what happened in Spain.

Horner added: “I am not saying it’s pay🍌back but you can see it's starting to get feisty. These guys have raced each other and raced hard throughout their careers. You know Max.

“He’s g🐼oing to fight for every inch of tarmac. I am sure Lando will have learned fromꦓ that. Max would have as well. Ultimately he got a penalty for it which obviously was unfortunate as well.”