A furious Verstappen branded Russell a “d***head” during a heated exchange following🥀 a coming together on the opening lap of the sprint race in Baku. 

The pair collided as they scrapped over third place, wit꧙h the contact causing a large hole to ꦛthe sidepod of Verstappen’s Red Bull. 

Verstappen later referred to Russell as a “Princess”, 💙while the Mercedes driver said th𒐪e two-time world champion had let himself down. 

Ahead of this weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miami Grand Prix, Russell told Sky: “It was a🔯ll a little bit pathetic🐬. 

“Something you learn as a kid is that if you’re going to give something, you’ve got to be willing to🧔 tꦉake it as well. 

“He’s had his fair🧸 share of giving moves like that and being tough and hard at racing. It’s a little bit poor to see how he sort of spat his dummy out when it was the first time he probably got something back in the same regard. 

“From my side there was nothing really to say. I thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚought it was good racing, exciting racing. That’s the only thing that happened that weekend, it was pretty boring otherwise! 

“We’re both drivers, we’ve been in the sport a long time now and we have plenty of experience. We’ll have a chat and movꦺe on. And I guess we’ll laugh about it one day.” 

Russell had earlier insisted there was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结ꦇ果历史:no need for ‘clear-the-air’ talks despite receiving🎃 no apology from Ver🐼stappen. 

Meanwhile, F1 points leader Verstappen de♚fended h𒁏is reaction to Dutch media. 

“You know, I'm just saying what I think and keep doing that,” he is quoted as sayi𒊎ng by De Te💎legraaf. 

“If peo🃏ple have problems with that, that's their problem. Right?”