F1 Austrian Grand Prix: Vettel mocks Verstappen kerb complaints

Drivers dismiss Max Verstappen's complaint that the newly-installed raised kerbs around the Red Bull Ring are 'dangerous'.
Vettel mocks Verstappen kerb complaints

Sebastian Vettel has joked that Red Bull needs to make strongerꩵ wings if it doesn't want to damage its car on the revised kerbs around the Red Bull Ring as drivers failed♔ to agree with Max Verstappen's view that they are 'dangerous'.

The Dutchman twice damage h🐠is car on the new yellow 'sausage' kerbs, which have been installed to deter drivers from using the plentiful run-off around the circuit, the latter𝔉 incident in FP1 breaking his suspension on the exit of turn five.

Prompting a 🐼furious reaction from Verstappen, who said it is 'be♔tter to have a wall there', his rivals were rather less sympathetic to his complaints.

"Maybe they need to build stronger front wings," Ferrari's Vettel said. "Then they would stop comp𓄧laining. I don't know, I haven't been on them and I haven't experienced how harsh they are."

"Well you can't ever call this circuit dangerous when you come from a circuit like Baku," added Jenson Button. "I think the circuits are very different to what we are used to, we can use a lot of the kerbs but it seems to work pretty well. It's a nice change to be able to run over the kerbs, use a lot of the circuit, it makes the circuit very fast and enjoyable🐓 to drive and the big sausage kerbs that Max [Verstappen] hit, it broke the car, but it's always going to in that situation."

Even fel𒀰low Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo wasn't siding with his team-mate over the matter, agreeing that drivers should adhere to the limitsꦓ as they are presented to them.

"It's not personal to Max, but I do like that if you make a mistake you can't just continue like it's nothing," he said. "I don't think the𝐆y'r✨e dangerous, I actually think they are quite good. You're going off track and at least you're paying a penalty."

The new kerbs have been installed as a deterrence following numerous 'unpunished' off-track excursions𓆏 during last year's Austrian event.

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