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Verstappen hits out at purple flag delay after shock Brazil F1 GP Q2 exit
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Verstappen hits out at purple flag delay after shock Brazil F1 GP Q2 exit

By Miles Cooper November 5, 2024
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Verstappen hits out at purple flag delay after shock Brazil F1 GP Q2 exit

Max Verstappen slammed the delay in bringing out the purple flag for Lance Stroll’s crash following his personal shock Q2 exit on the F1 Brazilian Grand Prix.

The Purple Bull driver’s world championship hopes suffered a significant blow on Sunday morning after he was eradicated in Q2 at Interlagos. It means he’ll begin seventeenth.

He was already heading into the Sao Paulo weekend realizing he had a five-place grid penalty, as his battle with title rival Lando Norris intensified.

However with Sunday morning’s moist qualifying situations trying like they may have supplied him a chance to drag off a shock towards Norris, all of it went improper within the closing levels of the second qualifying section.

Verstappen had failed to enhance because the monitor situations steadily obtained higher by the ultimate minutes and, after slipping right down to twelfth, he was caught out by a crash involving Lance Stroll as he tried a last effort to get by.

With the yellow flags out as Verstappen handed the stricken Aston Martin at Flip 3, he needed to again off – and he knew there can be no different try and make it by after the purple flag was finally introduced out.

Conscious of the implications of the stoppage, Verstappen gesticulated within the cockpit and expressed his frustration over the staff radio as he knew that the session wouldn’t be restarted.

Chatting with Sky after the session, a clearly agitated Verstappen mentioned he didn’t perceive why there had been a delay in stopping the session.

“If a man goes straight into the wall, it’s a straight purple,” he mentioned. “I do not perceive why it’s good to take 30, 40 seconds for a purple flag to return out…”

When instructed it had been to permit some drivers to complete their laps, he replied: “I don’t care in all honesty, it’s so silly to speak about. It’s ridiculous.”

Purple Bull staff boss Christian Horner echoed his driver’s frustrations after qualifying when talking to Sky Sports activities F1: “It is massively irritating in a session like that, there’s clearly an enormous quantity happening.

“I do not perceive why it took so lengthy for the purple flag to return out for clearly an enormous accident. Flip 3 and one of the harmful corners on the circuit. It took 40 seconds to throw the purple flag and it is the second day in a row now that we have had very late calls, whether or not it was a VSC yesterday or the purple flag right this moment, the opposite purple flags had been all instantaneous.

“So very, very harsh. However it’s what it’s. We have got to attempt to struggle again this afternoon.”

Verstappen’s Q2 exit marked a double blow for Purple Bull, together with his team-mate Sergio Perez additionally failing to make it by to Q3 after he ended up thirteenth.

Together with his five-place grid drop for a contemporary engine, Verstappen will now line up seventeenth on the grid.

Photographs from Brazilian GP Qualifying

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