F1 Austrian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen - ‘When I’m not upset anymore, I won’t be interested anymore…’

Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko had revealed how a psycho🐠logist was helping Yuki Tsunoda, of sister team AlphaTauri, who “explodes on the radio, you wouldn’t believe it”.
Verstappen, whose own radio messagesꦜ to Red Bull colleagues can be fractious, said that he h𝕴as never used a psychologist but will not stop showing emotion while driving.
“I di🐈dn’t work with anyone but, over the years, you look back at what you could have done better,” he said ahead of the F1 Austrian Grand Prix.
“It does꧒n’t help the wh♛ole team if you come in upset after a practice session because it makes everyone nervous.
“I still get a bit upset on the radio. It d꧙oesn’t influence my perform🐟ance. But, if things don’t go well, if something is badly executed, then I have a problem.
“When the day comes that I am not upset ꦗabout these things anymore, then I won’t be interested in the sport anymore.
“It is because I ♌care that I sometimes get upset at these things.
“It iꩵs not influencing my performance in the race.
“Some peoౠple are more calm, some are mo🔴re explosive.”

'Our problem child is Tsunoda!'
Ver🉐stappen was forced to settle for seventh at the F1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone last week when a piece of debris from Tsunoda’s AlphaTauri became lodged in his Red Bu🐎ll.
Marko, the Red Bull consꦆultant, has since said to Servus TV about Tsunoda: “We have organised a kind of psychologist to work with him, because he continued to rant in the corners, so that inhibits performance.
“We should keep our emotions in check. Thank God Max is calm, our problem child in this respect, not only in this respect, is Tsunoda. He explodes o✅n the radio, you wouldn’t believe it.”
Tsunoda revealed that he has always worked with a psychologist: “He was part of the reason I wa﷽s able to 🔯step up to Formula 1. He helped me develop my performance in terms of consistency.”
The Japanese driver has a new psychologist provided by Red Bull and he said: “He h𒁃as to understand more about myself and what d෴irection we take.
“🅠Definitely I get overheated, especially in my brain! In these situations he can make me better. I know that I have to improve myself.”

Sainz: 'Find the balance between agitated and calm'
Carlos Sainz, who won his first race at the 150th a🐭ttempt at Silverstone last w💞eek, added: “If there is something I have learned, it is finding the balance between being agitated and calm. It comes with experience.
“In my 🌸first years in F1 I was too calm an💛d didn’t make my point, or too excited and make no sense.”
Kevin Magnussen added: “There is emotion. You get annoy𓃲ed, exci﷽ted.
“If there is stuff that ꧅you can improve on, why not try, by speaking to peopl🐷e in the team or friends or a psychologist.
“I can get angry, of course.
“I am a more emotional person inside the ⛄car than ou﷽tside of the car.”
Esteban Ocon said: “It is not easy to stay level-🎃headed in the car because, in these moments, you can lose everything or win everything.
“People react differently. The most important 🎃thing for us is to perform under these pressures.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything☂ from American sports, to football, to F1.