The reigning world champion was seen sitting at the end of theꦆ pit lane for a long time while the green light was displayed.

Cars, including the Me🌸rcedes duoꦇ of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, were stacked up behind Verstappen's Red Bull as he waited to pull away. 

"Unless he had an issue there, I think it will be qu😼ite difficult to argue against that he was making himself a gap and impeding the others. But maybe he had a gremlin he was sorting out," Sky F1's Martin Brundle said. 

Sky's pitlan🅷e reporter Ted Kravitz added: "If they do give him a penalty, which I don't think they will, they'd have to give everyone else𒁏 a penalty as I've watched plenty of people do that. 

"Maybe it was in a more exaggerated way but when you can't go out 🎃on the track and stand in anyone's way when yo🌳u're trying to get a gap, the only way you can do that really is in the pit lane.

"So I think that's fairly standard stuff but we'll see wha☂t the stewardsꦯ do."

Verstappen is also being investigated for potentially impediꦗng AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda in Q2. 

Several dr🍷ivers including Ve🧔rstappen are facing investigations over possible impeding incidents in the final few corners amid a hectic end to Q1. 

Separaꦏtely, Logan Sargeant is under investigation for blocking Stroll▨.