Formula One leader Max Verstappen sent Red Bull into a rage on the radio after the team asked him to cancel the final qualifying round at the Singapore Grand Prix on Saturday and he stood. eighth.
“Why? Why?”, the 25-year-old Dutchman shouted when he was asked to pit instead of taking pole position in the race he needs to win if he wants to win the title. second opponent with five rounds remaining.
“You… what are you talking about? Unbelievable, man. I don’t understand. What is this… about?”, Verstappen raged, with obscenities on the air. TV.
His track engineer replied that they would explain it all privately.
Verstappen remained frustrated afterward, telling broadcaster Sky Sports that there wouldn’t be enough fuel in the car to provide the mandatory sample after qualifying if he hadn’t dropped the lap.
“On the last lap they asked me to close the tank and then I realized what was going to happen and we ran out of fuel. It was incredibly frustrating and shouldn’t have happened,” he said.
“We should have seen that sooner. I’m not happy at the moment. I know of course it’s a team effort and I can make mistakes and the team can make mistakes. But that’s never acceptable.
“Of course you learn from it but this is really bad, to be honest. It shouldn’t have happened.”
Verstappen had his first chance to claim the title in Sunday’s race but he had to score 22 points ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who started in the column at a lap where overtaking was difficult.
He also has to score 13 points more than Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez, who started up front with a winning mind in mind.
