The de♏bate over the 10-second time penalty issued to Hamilton continues to dominate the headlines in the build-up to this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, with Red Bull and Mercedes summoned to see the stewards on Thursday afternoon after Red Bull lodged a right to review the incident.

Red Bull has relentlessly iﷺnsisted that Hamilton’s penalty was far too lenient after the seven-time world champion was still able to win t🤡he Silverstone race, while Verstappen was taken out in a 51G impact it claims cost £1.3million.

Ahead of Thursda🍨y’s hearing in Budapest, Verstappen explained why he remains adamant in his view that Hamilton shou🦋ld have faced a harsher punishment for the clash.

“I don’t think the penalty was correcꦬt because basically, you take out your main rival, and especially with the speed we have with our cars, we are miles ahead of the third-best team,” Verstappen explained.

“We are easily 40-50 seconds ahead in normal conditions, so a 10-second penalty doesn’t do anything. So definitely that penalt๊y should have been more severe.”

In their investigation, the stewards ruled Hamilton was ‘predominately’ responsible for the collision but not ‘wholly’ to bla♔me.

Verstappen admitted he was “a bit s🍃urprised” to learn the stewards did not deem Hamilton to be entirely at fault, insisting there was nothing more he could have done to avoid co𓂃ntact.

“I don’t think I did anything wrong there,” he said. “We were racing hard, that corner is very fast, so I don’t know how I have a percenta♔ge in that fault.

“He goes for that move, he commits for that move♊. Of course, I’m going to make it difficult for him to make the move but as soon as he commits to🔜 the inside or gets alongside me I open up the corner and then I’m going to leave him space.

“Did he expect me to just completely run off the track then and keep my position? As then they will tell you you can’t run of🔯f the track. So yeah, from my side a bit surprised there is a bit of p✅ercentage in there.”

And Verstappen pointed to Hamilton’s clean race-winn�🌳�ing overtake on Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc as “a great example that it is possible not to touch”.

"Of course at the time he knew he had the faster car so♐ was just a mater of time to pass,” he add꧑ed.

“So it does show it is possible to go up the inside but th♔en back out more, slow down a bit more and not hit the other driver.

“Because I think at the middle of the corner I was opening up a bit more than Charles did even, so it’s a great example within the same race that it is possible t🍌o fight into that corner.”

The FIA 💙explained after the British GP that the consequences of an incident are not taken into consideration when determ𒆙ining what penalty should be issued, a principle that has been in place for a number of years.

Asked what he wants to see from the stewa🀅rds in future incidents, Verstappen replied: "Common sense. I think that’s it.”