“We have been each after all… We regarded on the incident and it was such a foolish, little contact that had after all nice penalties for each of us, and naturally a bit extra for Lando with how the puncture then developed.
“However we prefer to race exhausting. We’ve accomplished this for a few years, not solely in F1, even in on-line racing when we’ve plenty of enjoyable collectively. These items have to hold on, as a result of that’s what we love to do, and I feel it’s nice for F1 as nicely.”
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Pushed on how a lot he mentioned with Norris, and the way they each now look again on the conflict, Verstappen continued: “We agree with 99% of every little thing, so I feel that’s lots already.
“Naturally, I all the time stated to Lando, if you go for strikes up the within, outdoors, you possibly can belief me that I’m not there to try to crash you out of the best way, similar the opposite means round, as a result of we spoke about that as nicely.
“There’s all the time a human response when somebody dives up the within or outdoors that you’ve a little bit of a response to it, however I felt every little thing that I did was nothing massively excessive.