Max Verstappen has defended George Russell securing pole in Austria despite yellow flags, insisting he “would have tried to do the same”.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen’s crash on his final lap of Austrian Grand Prix qualifying has remained a talking point ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The controversy surrounds the fact that only single-waved yellow flags were displayed, rather than double-waved yellows or a red flag.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
When a single yellow is shown, a driver only needs to lift in that section, while a double-waved yellow results in a lap deletion. Russell followed the rules at the Red Bull Ring, lifted, but still went on to improve his lap time and clinch pole.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen has no problem with Russell’s pole lap, as the Briton followed the rules, but he does feel a single yellow was not appropriate for the situation.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At Silverstone, Carlos Sainz has proposed a new rule whereby a driver receives a three-place grid penalty should they deliberately cause a yellow or red flag in qualifying, while Verstappen believes any driver who triggers either should see their best lap deleted.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Asked for his thoughts on Sainz’s proposed idea, Verstappen told select media, including RacingNews365: “I think when someone does it deliberately, it should be an even bigger penalty than that.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But from my side, what happened there was, of course, out of my control. It’s a topic that we’ve been talking about for a long time and, in other series, I think that when you cause a double yellow or a red flag, you lose your [best] lap, for example.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So, yes, these are things to look at, for sure. But that still doesn’t solve what actually happened. Besides that, people are still completing a lap, while others are backing out of it. Now, you can, of course, read the rules very well, complete your lap and be allowed to keep it, but I think, first of all, it should not have been a single yellow. It should at least have been a double yellow or a red flag.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The driver then, of course, optimises around it, and I think that’s fair play. I mean, I probably would have tried to do the same, and that’s just how it goes. But it should not even be allowed, or be possible, to finish your lap like that. I think that’s my main concern in all of it.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has defended George Russell securing pole in Austria despite yellow flags, insisting he “would have tried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776739,"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-776738","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\/776738","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=776738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}