Max Verstappen reacts to double Mexico penalty: “I’m not going to give up easily”

Max Verstappen reacts𝔉 to his 20-second time penalty at the Mexico City Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen and Lando Norris
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen s💫ays the “biggest problem” for Red Bull in Mexico was their lack of race pace, not his two 10-second time penalties.

Verstappen was hit with 20 seconds worth of penalties after two incidents with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris during the opening part of the race.

The first penalty was due to pushing Norris off at Turn 4 after the McLaren drivꦬer attempted a bold overtake.

The ✱second happened shortly after into Turn 7 as Verstappen attempted an aggressive dive🤪bomb.

The two penalties droꦛpped Verstappen down to 15th before recovering to fini🐎sh sixth.

Reflecting on the two incidents with Norris, Vಌerstappen told Sky Sports: “I mean the problem is when you’re slower you🌃’re being put in those kind of positions.

“I am not going to give up easꦓily. At the end of the day, it’s not about agreeing or disagreeing about the pena🃏lty.

“The only thing is that 20 seconds is quite a lot. The biggest problem of today and thꦍat is also what I worry about is the race pace. It was really not good - something that we need to analyse.

“Even without them penal♏ties, we had no chance at✨ all to fight.”

Verstappen sits 47 points ahead of Norris 🐽with four❀ rounds to go.

The concern for Verstappen will be is that Haas’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen was closing in on him in 💦the final handfu💖l of laps.

Despite his lead in the championship closing by 10 poin𒆙ts, Verstappen insists he’s “no🍷t worried”.

“I am not worried,” he added. “This was a r♚eally bad day for us but I know we cꦉan do much better than this. We just keep going.”

Verstappen’s penalties “harsh”

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner felt the penaltie♛s were “harsh” by the FIA.

He said: “Max did leave the track at Turn 4 then at Seven, Lando opened the door very late and both ran off there. The proble🎶m is, I think we're going to get into very dangerous territory of, at what point is a d𒈔ive bomb going to be OK?

“I think, really, the FIA and the drivers need to sit down and decide what is a🍌cceptable and what isn't. I thought two 10-seconds was a bit on the harsh side today.

“You've always got to play to the rules. We'll look and learn from this race, but m༒ore for us today was that we just didn't have the pace. That's where our focus will be in the next five days.”

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