Vettel was ‘optimistic’ with Verstappen pass – Horner
Red Bull boss Christian Horner reckons Se꧟bastian Vettel’s attempted pass on Max Verstappen in the Japanese Grand Prix was “optimistic”, adding a collision was “inevitable”.
The pair tang🔥led at Spoon as they battled over third place during the early stages at Suzuka, with Vettel sent spinning to the rear of the field after a late lunge resulted in him hitting the side of Verstappen’s Red Bull.
Both drivers blamed each other 🍸but Horner felt the stewards’ decision to judge the clash a💜s a racing incident was the “right result”.
Re🦹d Bull boss Christian Horner reckons Sebastian Vettel’s attempted pass on Max Verstappen in the Japanese Grand Prix was “optimistic”, adding a collision 🦹was “inevitable”.
The pair tangled at Spoon as they battled over third place during the early stages at Suzuka, with Vettܫel sent spinning to the rear of the field after a late lunge resulted iཧn him hitting the side of Verstappen’s Red Bull.
Both drivers blamed each other but Horner felt the stewards’ decision to judge the clash as a raci🌄ng incident was the “right result”.
“I think it was a b❀it optimistic and I think the right result from the stewards happened,” Horner told Channel 4.
“I think he came from quite a way back and it is quick there with no big breaking𝓀 in the corner and with Max you know he is not going to give an inch so the outcome unfortunately was inevitable when that happened.
“You could see a few bits came off so aerodyꦓnamically we lost a reasonable percentage of load so he had to move his tools around to try to com♓pensate for that.
“It wasn’t ideal but he had enough in hand and enough pace at the end of the race to surprisingly challenge Valtteri [Bottas] on th🧜e different tyres.”
Verstappen had earlier received a five-second time penalty for returning𝐆 to the track ⭕in an unsafe manner as he forced Kimi Raikkonen wide coming out of the final chicane on the opening lap.
Horner said Red Bull accepted the penalওty but felt ther🦩e was little in the incident, describing it as “six of one and half a dozen of the other”.
“That kind of thing when it goes to the stewards can go either way,” he expဣlained.
“You can𝔉 argue it is a racing incident as he locked up, r⛄an wide and rejoined the track. He probably isn’t aware where Kimi is at that point to be honest with you. It is one of those things, we accept the penalty.
“He is focused on rejoining the track and getting going again.𝓡 He is probably not aware of Kimi and as you can see he is not looking in his mirrors at that point and then Kimi arrives so it is six of one and half a dozen of the other.
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