Wolff fiercely defended organisers of F1’s newest race after Thursday’s opening practice session was cancelled after a loose manhole cover badly damaged 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Esteban Ocon’s Alpine. 

In a168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: remarkable rant, the🐷 Mercedes boss raged at a journalist for suggesting the incident was a “black eye” for the sport. 

Wolff described the damage ✃to Sainz’s car as a “shame” but Verstappen reckons he would have reacted very differently had one of his cars been involved. 🦄;

“That is true of course, th⭕at it happened before, but you’re supposed to learn from that,” the triple world champion told Viaplay. 

“You know that when you go to a street circui🧜t, suಞch things could cause problems. So you should be prepared for that.

“And I think if it was his car, he would have🐟 spoꦅken differently. But I don’t expect anything less from him.

“We would have been very angry too, like Ferrari. Absolutely, the entire car is ruined. Carlos also said th♕at he didn’t feel his legs for a couple of seconds, so the accide⛦nt could have been a lot worse.”

In the post-qualifying press conference, Verstappen called for rule changes and labelled Sainz’s 10-place grid penalty as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“very harsh”. 

It is not the first time Verstappen and Wolff have clashed by having polar opposite views this se⛦ason. 

Verstappen previously shrugged off Wolff’s dismissive comments about hisꦆ record winning streak after the Austrian suggested the historic feat was s꧃imply “for Wikipedia” following September’s Italian Grand Prix.

Ahead of the following race in Singapore, the Dutchman retorted: "No, I'm not disappointed in t♏hat. 

"I m♌ean they had a pretty s*** race, so probably he was still p***** off with their performance."