Wolff fiercely defended organisers of F1’s newest race after Thursday’s opening practice session was cancelled after a loose manhole cover badly damaged 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Esteban Ocon’s Alpine. 

In a168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: remarkable rant, the Mercedes boss raged at a journa🍰list for suggesting the incident was a “black eye” for the sport. 

Wolff described the damage to Sainz’s car✃ as a “shame” but Verstappen reckons he would have reacted very differently had one of his cars beenꦅ involved. 

“That is true of course, that it happened before, but you’re supposed to learꦏn from that,” the triple world champion told Viaplay. 

“You know that when you go t𝓀o a street circuit, such things could cause problems. So you should be prepared for that.

“And I think i🌠f it was his car, he would have spoken differently. But I don’t expect anything less from him๊.

“We would have been very angry too, like Fer💎rari. Absolutely, the entire car is ruined. Carlos also said that he didn’t feel his legs for a couple of seconds, so the accident could have been a lot worse.”

In the post-qualifying press conference, Verstappen called for rule changes and labelled Sainz’s 10-place grid penalty as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“very harsh”. 

It is not the first time Verstappen 🌞and Wolff have clashed b💙y having polar opposite views this season. 

Verstappen previously shrugged off Wolff’s dismissive comments about his record winning streak after the Austrian suggested the historic feat was simpౠly “for Wikipedia” follo𓂃wing September’s Italian Grand Prix.

Ahead of the following race in Sing♛apore, the Dutchman retorted: "No, I'm not disappointed in that. 

"I mean they had a prett🧸y s*** race, so probably he was still p***** ꦑoff with their performance."