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Verstappen takes blame for Piastri crash however sad with 10s penalty
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Verstappen takes blame for Piastri crash however sad with 10s penalty

By Miles Cooper December 8, 2024
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Max Verstappen apologised to Oscar Piastri after hitting his McLaren at Flip 1 of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, however questioned the present penalty process in Method 1.

The 2024 world champion tried to go up the within of Piastri in the beginning of the season finale however as an alternative crashed into the Australian, who dropped to the again because of this.

It may have had a huge effect on the constructors’ championship however, finally, McLaren nonetheless ended its 26-year look ahead to a groups’ title as Lando Norris received and Piastri recovered to tenth.

Verstappen stated over staff radio that the incident was “unfortunate” however revealed he had stated sorry to Piastri after the race.

“My launch was good after which I attempted to seize the within and I rapidly realised, as soon as I dedicated to it, that the hole was closing and I needed to try to get out of it, as a result of I did not need to naturally, in fact, crash with Oscar,” he stated.

“However sadly, we nonetheless clipped one another, however I already apologised to Oscar, it’s not what you need to occur, and particularly not with him. He is an excellent man but it surely occurred, and it’s a bit unlucky.

“The factor was that, whenever you’re in that place, you are specializing in the automobile forward…you commit. While you begin first or second, you by no means actually look behind.

“So I went for it, after which I realised, ‘shit, he would not see me there’. So I used to be like attempting to get out of it, however then we nonetheless clipped.”

Verstappen takes blame for Piastri crash however sad with 10s penalty

Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38 and Max Verstappen, Purple Bull Racing RB20 collide on the nook inflicting one another to spin

Photograph by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Photographs

Verstappen additionally labelled the stewards “idiots” by way of staff radio for handing him a 10-second penalty for inflicting the collision.

He continued to query the choice when requested about it after the race, the place he ultimately completed sixth.

“In fact, that’s on me. However I used to be anticipating perhaps 20 seconds, 30 seconds, I do not know, cease and go!,” he stated sarcastically. “So perhaps one thing to speak about for subsequent time.

“I do not perceive something anymore, but it surely’s nice, no matter. I am not going to get indignant about stuff like that.

“It isn’t value my time and yeah, simply have a break. Like I stated, a very powerful factor is that I apologise to Oscar and that is it.”

Piastri was no less than happy to have the ability to toast constructors’ success with McLaren regardless of a race to overlook for the Australian.

When requested if Verstappen’s overtaking try was too optimistic, Piastri advised Sky Sports activities: “In all probability sure, however he got here and apologised right away,”

“The stewards deemed there was a penalty, so we go once more subsequent yr, it was a tricky race from then on however once more, we achieved our predominant goal as we speak and that’s all that issues.

“It was a fairly depressing race for myself however in fact, the largest factor as we speak is we clinched the championship.

“It is a large credit score to everybody and McLaren for what they’ve achieved this yr and I could not be prouder of all of them.”

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