Guenther Steiner has disagreed with the decision to pu🦂nish Max Verstappen for swearing.

The Red Bull driver was hit with a community service penalty after describing his RB20 at “ܫf*****” in a press conference in Singapore.

Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris disputed the FIA’s decision to penalise Verstappen, who staged his own protests to make his annoyance clಞear.

Ex-Haas team principal Steiner was previou﷽sly the most notorious foul mouth 🅰in F1.

His 💛swearing became iconic during Netflix’s Drive To Survive.

But he told Red Flags 🐼podcast: “You have never heard me c🐬ursing in a press conference, or anything like this.”

But he stuck up for Verstappen.

“I don’t think it’s exaggerated, what was done. Max explained the situation about hiﷺs car, no꧋t about a person,” Steiner said.

“Are there other words he could have chosen? Yes.

“He said terminology which is used a lot. Yes.

“Ma﷽ybe it isn’t right. But is it wrong? Maybe also not.

“I am very much on the fence here.

“In the race, on the radio, I can fully unಞderstand it because the adrenaline is high.

“What you say there, you don’t mean it. You do🌜n’t take it home with you.

“F1 is very good at bleeping it out. They bleep out two word🌌s…

“I don’t think it was necessary to make such a big thing out o♛൩f it.”

Steiner remembered another FIA directive to punish F1 driversജ who wore jewellery inside the paddock, which irked Hamilton.

“For me♏, it’s very similar with the jewellery,” Steiner remembered.

“We are in 2024. That is what I try✤ to recognise. Somebody wearing an earring? Could I care♕ less?”