Max Verstappen was lef🎉t to consider what could have been in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix after a clash with Williams’ Felipe Massa left the Red Bull Formula 1 driver to fight from the back of the field after sustaining damage💦.

Verstappen and Massa touched at Turn 1 when jostling for position, the D🐽utchman havi☂ng made a lightning start to run eighth early on.

The contact left Verstappen with 🐬a fro🌺nt-right puncture, forcing him to take an unscheduled visit to the pits and revert to a two-stop strategy.

Verstappen was able to scythe through the field and eventually pick up a point for P10, and while he was frustrated♏ not to finish higher up, he remained happy with his performance.

“My race wasꦏ ba🎉sically finished after three laps. We were always playing catch-up,” Verstappen said.

𝓡“We started on the softs and then I had a puncture 🐠on that tyre, so I had to do a two-stop. Was a bit of a shame. So yeah, what can you do?

“I thi𒉰nk I still did quite a decent race, I was pretty happy with that.

“Daniel [Ricciardo] finish🔯ed fourth, so I think the car was working really well. I was really happ♈y even though I was playing catch-up.

“Hopefully in Singapore we can really 🎃fight🦩 for a proper podium.”