Max Verstappen recalls Lewis Hamilton’s Baku blunder: ‘The phone was like buzzing…’
Verstappen was on course f🌃or the win i🉐n Baku two years ago when he suffered a rear tyre blowout, crashing out of the race in frightening fashion.
The race was subsequently red-flagged, with Red Bull teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Sergio Perez inheriting the lead ahead of Hamilton - Verstapp♓en’s main rival at the time.
As the race restarted, it looked like Hamilton would take the lead into Turn 1, powering past Pere𒉰z.
Hamilton locked-up and dropped to the back of theꦿ field, surrendering the lead and 25 crucial points.
It soon transpired afterwards that Hamilton had accidentally pressed a button on his steer🌠ing wheel that dramatically moved the brake bias forwards hence his mistake.
In a clip posted on Red Bull Racing’s TikTok account, Verstappen recalled hearing what happened at the end of🧔 the race, even adding his own amusing sound effects.
“And then I hear the restart,” he said. “All 🐽the cars were [engine noise]. At one point I heard the guys brake, and I could hear a [high-pitched squeal] and then everyone was like ‘Yeah!’ like this.
“I t🎃hink Gemma [Lusty, Red Bull press officer] was with me and the phone was like [buzzing noise], like a hundred messages.
“I was like ‘what happened, what happened?’ and then you [Perez] were back in the lead but still I 𝔍didn’t know about your iss🌸ues at the time.”
It proved to be a crucial race in the title battle as Hamilton would go oඣn to lose to Verstappen by eight points.
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