he would put his “foot down internally”<\/a> at McLaren to get answers.<\/p>\nHis son conceded he would not handle the situation in the way the Australian duo appears to have at the Woking-based squad.<\/p>\n
“No, but I think that has to do with how they operate as a team as well,” the 28-year-old explained. “That\u2019s not how I operate.<\/p>\n
“But that\u2019s fine, everyone does their own thing. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, but I am a bit different in that regard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t know what has happened or what hasn\u2019t happened, so it\u2019s difficult for me to judge. But I would probably have been a bit more annoyed, I think, when you\u2019re that far ahead and suddenly that far behind.”<\/p>\n
A prime example of McLaren handling adversity differently from Red Bull is its response to Piastri being awarded a 10-second time penalty during the recent S\u00e3o Paulo Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc, who was the collateral damage in Piastri’s incident with Kimi Antonelli, argued against any punishment, and Carlos Sainz has since labelled it “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n
Whilst Verstappen is unsure why the constructors’ champions managed the setback, which likely cost Piastri second place and a further eight points, he was quick to point out that getting “angry” about it would not have altered the outcome.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I don\u2019t know why they handled it like that,” the 68-time grand prix winner said. “In the end, you can be angry about it, but the penalty will still stand anyway.<\/p>\n
“You just have to live with it. If you have a problem with that, then you need to contact the stewards or the FIA, and maybe you can talk about it for the future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has shared his bewilderment at Oscar Piastri’s “very bizarre” loss of form in the second part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-300924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}