Verstappen calls Russell a 'traitor' for his comments

The Dutch pilot said he was not surprised by what a George Russell distort their conversations at the Qatar Grand Prix, and He called the British “traitors”.. The two had a war of statements after Max Verstappen I would note that the Englishman was looking for a penalty to lose his pole position.

That of Red Bull made public his complaints regarding the behavior of the Mercedesand said he had lost all respect for her because of the way she tried to get him into trouble during the meeting with the stewards. Their argument continued a week later, during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where George Russell put Max Verstappen at the level of a tyrant with his threatsand assured it was time someone stopped him, before revealing he told her he would put her “fucking head against the wall”.

When He questioned the Dutchman about all this, claimed that the Englishman had dramatized the conversation and called him a “traitor” and a liar: “It's no longer accurate, but these things don't surprise me. I give just my opinion on how it is He's not happy about it, but it's the same thing he did with the commissioners, lying and saying things he doesn't like. . They have reason, he's a traitor, I don't care, you shouldn't talk much about people like that, they're losers.

“We had the last word because we finally won this race. They may have started from pole position thanks to their words to the stewards, but 300 meters later they were behind us again,” continued Max Verstappen .

VAR(–vmsc-fg-default)); font-family: VAR(–vmsf-primary);”>The Dutchman showed himself baffled by George Russell's comments that someone should resist his actionsand suggested that his anger was only provoked by his conversation with the commissioners, and was not linked to having more rivals in 2024, with the Brits going so far as to state: “Why would anyone turn on me? I didn't do anything wrong, right? I just said I was disappointed in your actions to the commissioners, that's all. “

“It has nothing to do with anything else. I was very relaxed, I had already won my championship, I just had to be so dramatic to try to come out first, I was screaming to win a place, for him it can be a big difference,” he noted. “He mentions a lot of things that are not based on the truth, but that's what happened with the commissioners as well, he insinuated a lot of things that don't make any sense. That's typical of him, people can believe what they want”, but it's not true, I'm always the same person, whether I'm at home, here or at the police station, you can't say that about everyone .”

Asked about what was said at the Qatar Grand Prixreplied: “No, I didn't say it like that, but that's something else. It happened behind closed doors, so you don't have to share everything that was said there and make it more dramatic.”

Max Verstappen suggested his once cordial relationship with George Russell was beyond repairbut he said he wouldn't lose any sleep over it either, since he wasn't there to make friends in the paddock: “No, but that doesn't matter. We we don't need to be best friends, I'm not here for that, being his best friend, that's not my goal in the paddock, so I don't care.

“Especially if someone acts like that towards you in front of the stewards, I’m done with them for a while,” he said. “Qatar is Qatar and we move on. I gave my opinion on what happened and that's it, life goes on.”

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