Guenther Steiner has disagreed with the decision to punish Max Verst🦄appen for swearing.

The Red Bull 𒐪driver was hit with a community service penalty after describing his RB20 at “f*****” in ♛a press conference in Singapore.

Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris disputed the FIA’s decision t꧙o penalise Verstappen, who staged his own protests to make his annoyance clear.

Ex-Haas team principal Steiner was previousl💙y the most notorious foul mouth ܫin F1.

His swe🔯aring became iconic during Netflix’s Drive To Survive.

But he told Red Flags podcast: “You have never heard me cursing in a press conference, or anythi🔯ng like this.”

But he stuck up for Verstappen.

“I don’t think it’s exaggerated, what was done. Max explained the situation about his cꦑar, not about a person,ꦯ” Steiner said.

“Are there other words he could have chosen? Yes.

“He said terminology which is used a lot. Yes.

“Maybe it isn’t r🦋ight. But is it 𒁏wrong? Maybe also not.

“I am very much on the fence here.

“In the race, on the radio, I can fully understaꦦnd it because the adrena꧅line is high.

“What you say there, you don’t mean it. You don’t tak🌼e it home with you.

“F1 is ꦦvery good at bleeping it out. They bleep out two wor𝐆ds…

“I 𒁃don’t t🍒hink it was necessary to make such a big thing out of it.”

Steiner remembered another FIA directive to puni🔜sh F1 drivers who wore jewellery inside the paddock, which irked Hamilton.

“For me൲, it’s very similar with the jewellery,” Steine💫r remembered.

“We are in 2024. That is whaꦛt I try to recognise. Somebody wea♓ring an earring? Could I care less?”