{"id":9266,"date":"2023-05-14T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T12:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-grand-prix-george-russell-says-spat-with-max-verstappen-in-baku-was-pathetic\/"},"modified":"2023-05-14T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T12:48:50","slug":"miami-grand-prix-george-russell-says-spat-with-max-verstappen-in-baku-was-pathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-grand-prix-george-russell-says-spat-with-max-verstappen-in-baku-was-pathetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Grand Prix: George Russell says spat with Max Verstappen in Baku was ‘pathetic’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Russell muscled past Verstappen on the opening lap of the Baku sprint race but was overtaken by the Red Bull a couple of laps later<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

George Russell says his spat with Max Verstappen after they collided at last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix sprint race was “all a little bit pathetic”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verstappen swore at Russell as they argued in the pits after the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“He has had his fair share of giving moves like that and being tough and hard at racing,” Russell said on Thursday at the Miami Grand Prix.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a little bit poor to see how he spat his dummy out when he got something back in the same regard.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mercedes driver added: “Something you learn as a kid is if you give something you’ve got to be prepared to take it as well.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Red Bull’s Verstappen said on Thursday that relations between the two drivers were “absolutely fine”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russell added: “I thought it was good racing and it was the only thing that happened that weekend, it was pretty boring otherwise. We will have a chat, everything’s fine.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident happened on the opening lap of the sprint race in Baku.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russell was trying to overtake Verstappen’s Red Bull on the inside at Turn Two but the world champion tried to hold position around the outside. <\/span><\/p>\n

The pair collided, damaging Verstappen’s sidepod and preventing him challenging team-mate Sergio Perez for victory. The stewards did not investigate the clash, considering it a racing incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Verstappen accused Russell of lacking “common sense” because he knew that he would be passed sooner or later, such is the Red Bull’s performance advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russell said that Verstappen had used the F-word a number of times during their heated discussion. The Red Bull driver also insulted the Briton as he walked away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russell responded: “I am not just going to wave him by because he’s Max Verstappen in a Red Bull. I am here to fight and win.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I was very surprised by how angry he was.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the Miami Grand Prix preview show on BBC Radio 5 Live on Friday, 5 May at 21:00 BST.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Russell muscled past Verstappen on the opening lap of the Baku sprint race but was overtaken by the Red Bull a couple of laps later George Russell says his spat with Max Verstappen after they collided at last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix sprint race was “all a little bit pathetic”. Verstappen swore at Russell as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9268,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions\/9268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}