Former F1 steward Johnny Herbert agrees with Nico Rosberg that168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen should have been black-flagged after his incident with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Verstꦚappen collided with Russell at Turn 5 on Lap 61 of the race at the Circuit de Barcelona-Cata💎lunya.

A frustrated Verstappen collided with Russell de🍎liberately after෴ he was annoyed that he was told to lift off and give the position back to the British driver.

This was because of their battle at Turn 1 following the Safety Car re🅠start.

Russell went for aꦐn optimistic move into the first corner, pushing Verstappen wide as a result.

Red Bull inc🐓orrectly ordered Verstappen to move over to let Russell past, leading to the controversial incident.

Rosberg, who was commentating for Sky Sports at th🍸e ti⛄me, called for Verstappen to be disqualified.

He said: “Wow, that’s bad, bad, bad. That♑ is seriously bad. He just rams him, full onꦅ.

“You need to black flag that, there is no other way. Max was ♛in the right - at first. The team went against Max and𝐆 caused him to boil over.”

Herbert w🉐as an FIA steward up until the end of last year 🍎but was dismissed ahead of the 2025 season due to his media commitments.

Speaking to , Herbert weighed in on the controversy in Barc🦄elona.

“Yes, I totally agree with Nico Rosberg, Max Verstappen deserved a black flag and should have been disqualified,” he said. “There's a point where you have to be hard on the driver when there have been many of these types of incidents. Verstappen is the best driver on the track, w🅰ith the best racecraft and judgement, but there is always a story with him.

“It's usually some kind of racing incident we all end up talking about with Verstappen, u🥂nfortunately. It was clear as day that Verstappen's move on George Russell was on purpose. He backed out atℱ the right corner, where he could then attack and retake the place by driving into Russell. To me, that's overstepping the mark.”

Why Verstappen should have been black-flagged

Verstappen was ultimately handed a 10-second time penalty, dropping him from fiཧfth to ꧅10th.

Herbert thinks that giving him just a time pe🌠nalty puts it on the same level of severity as any other incident.

“A black flag is something that could have been thought of by the s൩teward🦹s and the race director, you have to stop this wheel-banging type of racing,” Herbert added.

“Anyone can go and crash into another car, it's totally ✅wrong to purposely bang into a fellow driver. It's happened historically, with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, with Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill, and with Jacques Villeneuve too. In the 1997 incident, Schumacher was banned for the sea🦹son.

“For me, I'd like to think I was a hard and clean racer, and Verstappen can be that too, that collision overstepped the mark. I don't want to see it, nor do the 𒁏drivers. That type of racing should not happen, if it does happen, the penalty should be harsher to stamp it out. It can't just be a 10-second penalty, otherwise you're treating it like any other r💖acing incident.”