MONTREAL– Max Verstappen pledged to “race like I always do” in spite of discovering himself on the edge of a one-race restriction.
Even a small disobedience at this weekend break’s Canadian Grand Prix or the Austrian Grand Prix might sideline the ruling globe champ for the following occasion.
The Dutchman’s debatable bang right into the side of George Russell’s Mercedes 2 weeks earlier in Spain relocated him to 11 charge factors, one far from the optimum admitted a 12-month duration.
Verstappen, renowned for his all-or-nothing method to shut quarters competing, assured to stay with that way of thinking throughout the following 2 weeks.
“No, nothing changes. No [change in approach],” he claimed. “I cannot just back out of everything. I’m just going to race like I always do, I trust myself. Is it fair that I’m on 11 points? I don’t know. But at the same time, life isn’t fair. I don’t worry about it, I just come here to race and I will always race hard.”
“I’m not here, of course, to try and get a ban.”
Penalty factors can be given out by the guardians for a series of points from triggering an accident to not reducing properly for an online security automobile.
Asked if he assumes its reasonable he has actually discovered himself on a cusp of a restriction, he claimed: “I don’t need to go into that to be honest. I mean, what is fair?
“If you consider it like that. I do not stress over it. I simply come below to race.
“And I will always race hard. Race how I think I should race. And then we go on to the next race.”
Verstappen had actually originally been unapologetic in the media meetings after the Spanish Grand Prix, although he later on shared a blog post to social media sites stating the occurrence with Russell “was not right” and “shouldn’t have happened.”
The Dutch motorist cut short of a public apology to Russell, however confessed the minute had actually been a mistake of reasoning on his component.
“[The post was] sharing my view of things, how I thought that race panned out. Not ideal for me, but that was my statement. And then I went back to enjoying my day.
“It was an error, you recognize, plainly in the edge. But you do not require to enter into complete information of why, just how and what. Everyone makes blunders in life. Everyone gains from them and we simply go on.”
Verstappen is 3rd in the champion, 39 factors behind McLaren’s Lando Norris.
