Helmut Marko didn’t address 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen's controversial incident with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell at the F1 Spanish Grand💛 Prix but al⛄luded to “a certain frustration” that clouded the four-time world champion.

The main talking point from Sunday’s race at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was Verstappen𓆉’s seemingly deliberate collision with Russell.

The race turned on its head ꦏafter the Safety Car because Verstappen was forced to run on the hard ty🦄res.

Red Bull elected to put Vers🔜tappen on a three-stop strategy, which meant he had run out of softs.

On the hards, Verstappen was left vulnerable and immediately overtaken by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, Russell tried to oꦜvertake but forced Verstappen off at Turn 1.

Vers♕tappen kept the position by going off track, leading Red Bull to incorrectly tell their star driver to let Russell through.

This led t🅰o the moment of controversy where Verstappen collided with Russel🎐l at Turn 5.

Speaking to Sky Germany after the race, Maℱrko didn’t directly reference 🔯the incident.

“I would ♐say he was driving in front for a long time, and th🎉en because of this tyre choice,” Marko said.

“But as I said, we had nothing else and didn’t know that this tyre would be so bad in the warm-up phase. There was a certain frustration and that expressed itse𒊎lf ♐in the driving style.”

Marko admits hard tyre was “wrong”

⛦The timing of the Safety Car meant Red Bull were in a tricky position.

They could have kept Verstappen out on worn softs and given him track p🙈osition over the McLarens🧜.

Instead, they put hꦉim on the unfancied hard tyre, which no team used in the 66-lap race.

The hard tyre had difficulties warming up, causing Verstappen to have a huge oversteer moment on th𝓡e exit of the final corner.

This cost him third to Leclerc af𝓡ter they briefly touched on the start-finish straight.

“We realised we had to take a risk to have anﷺ𝓡y chance at all,” Marko explained.

“And that was the three-stop. Unfortunately, the safety car got in the ജway at the end.

“We only🅘 had the hard tyr🦂e left and that was definitely the wrong tyre. That tyre was especially bad during warm-up.

“And we saw Max’s evasive manoeuvౠre [after the restart]. But that’s how it goes: if you take a risk, it can also go the other way.

“Max obviously saw that he had no grip because of the bad tyre and he almost lost control. And then there was the situ❀ation with Leclerc. I don’t want to go into details about this either.”