Toto Wolff has used Max Verstappen to highlight the rules of engagement he expects from George Russell and Kimi Antonelli after their F1 title feud ignited during the Canadian Sprint.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For the first time this season, Antonelli and Russell clashed, with the championship-leading teenager coming off second-best and voicing his anger and frustration over the radio during the Canadian Sprint, prompting Wolff to tell him to calm down.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
On lap six of the 23-lap event at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Antonelli initially made a move on Russell into Turn 1, only to take to the grass following a minor collision between the two as the Briton tried to hold his line out of the left-hander.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Later in the lap, on the approach to the chicane at Turns 8\/9, and with Antonelli poised to attack Russell, he caught a bump that sent him hurtling onto the grass again, with the lost momentum allowing McLaren’s Lando Norris to claim second position.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At the chequered flag, Antonelli indicated that if that was how Russell wanted to drive, he was now aware. Wolff again jumped on the radio to inform the 19-year-old the situation would be discussed behind closed doors.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Offering an insight into the debrief, speaking to Sky Sports F1, Wolff said: “It was good, like sport should be, or an intra-team battle, or outside, and for us, it’s good learning.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We obviously went through these emotions with Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton], and a sprint race is always a possibility to recalibrate or recondition, and it was very easy.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We sat them down and said, ‘How do we want to race? Are we racing the other car, like any third car’, which I’m fine [with], ‘and you don’t leave the space?’\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Or do you want to leave the space, which I would not expect, because fundamentally you are racing to win and winning a championship, or are we playing this super-smooth sailing, and you only overtake each other on the straight or under braking?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We agreed that we trust them. They know how to push, but in any case, neither is expecting the other to leave space because it’s too important.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Wolff then highlighted how he felt four-time F1 champion Verstappen would approach such a situation from both a defensive and attacking position.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It’s good to know the rules,” said Wolff. “Would Max have left space there? No. Would Max have opened the door or left enough space in Turn 1? He wouldn’t.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So, how do we want to do this between teammates? And I think it’s important for them to decide how they want to race each other, and then with the outcome.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Is that today? You said they’ve got to decide, so it’s got to happen in the next few hours, yes?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“No, that’s the rules now, and it’s a framework that they have established amongst themselves, and we are happy.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff has used Max Verstappen to highlight the rules of engagement he expects from George Russell and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650972,"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-691803","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\/691803","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=691803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}