Verstappen and Russell made contact twice on the opening lap of Saturday’s sprint ꦜrace in Baku as they fought over third place, ✃with Russell emerging ahead coming out of Turn 3. 

Reigning world champion Verstappen was left fuming at Russell and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:branded the Briton a “dickhead” following their collision. 

Red Bull team principal Horner said h💞e could understand Verstappen’s reac📖tion. 

“I think he wa🐠s understandably annoyed 💃with that,” Horner told Sky. 

“He voiced his opinion to George. It was probably a good idea he left his crash helmet on. You can understand that, he’s a competit🍨ive driver. 

“He’s like an elephant, he’🍬ll remember that for a while.𒀰”

The coming together left Verstap𒁏pen with a large hole in the sidepod of his Red Bull, which Horner described as a “big handicap”.

Despite the damag🐻e, Verstappen was able to repass Russell to claim third place behind teammate Sergio Perez and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. 

“Unfortunately, the result of it was we ended with quite a lot of bodywork damage, a big hole in thඣe sidepod,” Horner said. “And that cost him quite a bit of performance.”

Asked if he coul♌d put a number on the performance loss, Horner replied: “It’s difficult to quantify but when you see a hole like thꦚat in the bodywork it’s got to be three quarters of a second a lap at least, maybe more. 

“T💙here’s other complications, the temperatures start going out of control because the air is not going through the sidepods as its designed to.”