Christian Horner has responded to Andrea Stella’s criticism of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen following the Austrian Grand Prix, citing “high emotions” as the reason for the McLaren F1 boss’ comments.

Red Bull and McLaren saw their lead drivers collide on L🐻ap 64 of the Austrian GP༺.

Verstappen veered slightly left in the braking zone at♊ Turn 3 resulting in contact, with the pair picking up punctures.

While Verstappen was handed a 10-second time penalty for his role in the incideไnt, he still extended his lead in the championship as Norris was forced to retirꦜe.

The incident left Stella frustrated, stating that Verstappen’s aggressive driving was due to him not being punished correctly in 2021 against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton.

Speaking to Sky Sports after FP1 at Silverstone, Horner was asked about Stella’s comments and seemingly fireﷺd a dig at the Italian.

“I haven’t heard all of what he said,” Horner sa🙈id. “The stewards have a job to do. They award penalties when they feel someone’s committed something wrong.

“The⛄y felt that Max had obviously moved so gave him a 10-second penalty. Obviously there’s always a lot of emotion running high afte💎r the race.

“I can🎃 only imagine it’s not a position Andrea has been in before so maybe th🐷ere were some high emotions running.”

Horner's stance on the inciden𝐆t itself remains unchanged, describing i🀅t as “hard racing between the two of them”.

“Not really. It’s hard racing between the two of ♐them,” he addedꦦ. “I think you can see the two of them have spoken about it. It’s been rode back a little bit from where Lando’s positions back understandably with the emotion following the race.

“I am sure we’re going to see more hard racing between the 🐼two of them through the second half of the year. You learn from it, you move on.”

Horner feels the dynamic between Verstappen and Norris𓂃 has intensified🍌 over the last few races, starting out in Barcelona.

At the start of the race, Norris pushed Verstappen onto the grass at the start, which allowed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell to get a run on them before taking the lead.

“For me that incident started 🌞a week earlier on the run down to Turn 1 in Barcelona where Lando had him on the grass,” he explained.

Martin Brundle then𝕴 questioned Horner about whether Austria was payback for what happened in Spain.

Horner added: “I am not saying it’s payback but you can see it's starting to get feisty. These 🎀guys have raced each other and raced hard throughout their careers. You know Max.

“He’s going to fight for every inc🐬h of tarmac. I am sure Lando will have learned from that. Max would have as well. Ulti🐽mately he got a penalty for it which obviously was unfortunate as well.”