Mercedes boss Toto Wolff described Max Verstappen’s controversial manoeuvre on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell during the 2025 F1 Spanish Grand Prix as “incomprehensible” and admitted he🏅 was confused by the reigning world champion’s intentions.

Russell and Verstappen clashed in the final laps at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in a dramatic moment that saw the Red Bull driಞver slow down on the approach to Turn 4.

As Russell got ahead into the corner, Ver꧟stappen appea🐼red to crash into the Mercedes driver deliberately.

Verstap🤪pen was hit with a 10-second time penalty as a result, dღropping him to 10th in the final order.

Verstappen was irked by Russell's move into Turn 1 on the previous lap as he was told by Red Bull to give the▨ place bac🍎k.

Speaking after the race, Wolff revealed Mercedes initially thought Verstappen had a car issue, only to hear🐬 la💛ter that he had been instructed to let Russell past.

“So I just heard actually that Max had the call to let him past, right? We were unde🌳r the impression in the race that he had 𓆏a problem with the car, and that’s why he was so slow getting out of four,” Wolff told media, including .

“I mean, if it was road rage, which I can’t imagine, because it was too ob꧃vious, t🐼hat is not good. But the thing is I don’t know what he aimed for.

“Did he want to let George past, and immediately re-pass? Put the car, George the car ahead, and then like the old DRS games, letting him past at the right way. Or… for me,๊ it’s just incomprehensible. But again, I don’t know exactly what the motivations were, and I don’t want to judge on it and say this was road rage etc. Let’s see what his arguments are. It wasn’t nice.

When asked again about the incident again, Wolff said he didn’t want to “jump to🔯 conclusions”.

Wolff’s philosophical view

It’s not the fඣirst time Verstappe❀n has shown his frustration on track.

Verstappen deliberately ran Lando Norris off the track oဣn two occasions in Mexico last year.

In 2021, Verstappen did everything he could to try and beat Lewis 🐬Hamilton with a series of high-profile incidents in Brazil and Saudi Arabia.

Commenting mౠore generally, Wolff said it’s a “pattern with the great” sportsmen b༒ut admitted, “I don’t know where it comes from”.

“There’s a pattern that the great ones, whether it’s in motor racing or in other sports, you just need to ♒have the world against you, and then perform at the highest possible levels,” Wolff added.

“And that’s why sometime🐻s these greats don’t recognize that actually the world is not against you, yo♏u have made a mistake, or you have screwed up, etc etc. And we haven’t seen any of these moments with Max for many years now. The year 2021, that happened, and I don’t know where it comes from.”