Mercedes boss Toto Wolff described Max Verstappen’s controversial manoeuvre on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell during the 2025 F1 Spanish Grand Prix as “incomprehensible” and admitted he was confused by the ༒reigning world champion’s intentions.

Russell and Verstappen clashed in the final laps at Circuit de Barc꧋elona-Catalunya in a dramatic moment that saw the Red Bull driver slow down on the approach to Turn 4.

As Russell got ahe🍷ad into the corner, Verstappen appeared to crash into the Mercedes driver deliberately.

Verstappen was hit wiไth a 10-second time penalty as a result, dropping him to 10th in the final order.

Verstappen was irked by ♑🌠Russell's move into Turn 1 on the previous lap as he was told by Red Bull to give the place back.

Speaking after the race, Wolff revealed Mercedes initially thought Verstappen h🦋ad a car issue, only to hear later that he had been instruct🙈ed to let Russell past.

“So I just heard actually that Max had the call to let h🎉im past, right? We were under the impression in the race that he had a problem with thไe car, and that’s why he was so slow getting out of four,” Wolff told media, including .

“I mean, if it was road rage, which I can’t imagine, because it was to🌱o obvious, that is not good. But the thing is I don’t know w💯hat he aimed for.

“Did he want to let George past, and immediately re🎃-pass? Put the car, George the car ahead, and then like the old DRS games, letting him past at the right way. Or… for me, it’s just incomprehensible. But again, I don’t know exactly what the motivations were, and I don’t want to judge on it and say this was road rage etc. Let’s see what his arguments are. It wasn’t nice.

When asked again about the incident again, Wolff said he didn’t w💮ant to “jump to concl🅺usions”.

Wolff’s philosophical view

൲It’s not thꦿe first time Verstappen has shown his frustration on track.

Verstappen del🌃iberately ran Lando Norris off the track on two occasions in Mexico last year.

In 2021, Verstappen did eveꦦrything he could to try and beat Lewis Hamilton with a series of high-profile incidents in Brazil and Saudi Arabia.

Commenting more generally🧸, Wolff sa🐈id it’s a “pattern with the great” sportsmen but admitted, “I don’t know where it comes from”.

“There’s a pattern that the great ones, whether it’s in motor racing or in other sports, you just need to have the world against you, and then perform at the highest possible levels,”ꦆ Wolff added.

“And that’s why sometimes these greats don’t recognize that actually the world is not against you, you have made a mistake, or you have screwed up, etc etc. And we haven’t seen any of these moments𝔉 with Max for many years now. The year 2021, that happened, and I don’t know where it comes from.”