The most dramatic on-track action of the weekend in Baku came in the opening lap of Saturday’s 17-lap sprin🍨t.

Russell and Verstappen battled fo🔴r position through the opening sequence of corners, coming into contact with each other on two occasions.

The contact left Verstappen with damage meaning he was unable to overtake168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Charles Leclerc for second.

Verstappen expressed his frustration afterwards in parc ferme as he discuܫssed the incident with the Mercedesไ driver, who still had his helmet on at the time.

The Dutchman di🔜dn’t ap𓆉preciate Russell’s excuse of having cold tyres before calling him a .

🌜Reflecting on what happened on S♉aturday, Russell says it was “unnecessary”.

“I think he’s a two-time champion, leading the championship again🙈 at the moment, it doesn’t bother me, but he probably lets himself down a little bit with those sort of comments,” Russell said. 🦹;

“Max is a super good guy, great, great 🎐driver it’s just words like that are just a bit unnecessary.”

Russell admitted when☂ reviewing the video footage he was “underwhelmed”, descꦗribing the battle as typical Lap 1 contact.

“To be honest, I was a bit underwhelmꦿed at how little everything was. I was expecting it to be a lot more," he added.

“Obviously, there was a bit of contact, as there often is up and down the gr♈id on lap one. So I was expecting a bit more.”