Damon Hill claims 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen would “cry like a baby” if he was on the receiving𝓰 end of aggre🎃ssive driving.

The Red Bull driver’s tactics came under the microscoﷺpe at the end of last year as he fiercely fought off Lando Norris’ threat to his drivers’ title.

Verstappen and Norris’ fr𒅌iendship hit a stumbling block after two major on-track cla𒀰shes.

Ex-F1 champ Hill was particularly critical of Verstappen afte꧅r he received two time penalties at the Mexico City Grand Prix.

“It is possible to race fairly and that is something I’m not sure that Max is capable of,” Hill✨ said at the time.

Hill has since exited his role as a pundit on Sky Sports’ Formula 1 coverage 🎀for the ✱2025 season.

But he has defended his initial criticism of Verstappen’s a🍌ggressiv🤪e tactics.

Damon Hill: Red Bull "don't like criticism" of Max Verstappen

“Red Bull fight their corner very forcefully,” Hill told The Te🅠legraph.

“And they don’t like criticism o🦹f Max. And they didn’t like, particularly, some of the things that were said.

“On the whole they’ve always take♊n the view that Sky a🦂re British-centric and biased, which is really unfair I think.

“Actually🐲 I think there is a desire [the other way]. I don’t think Sky want to be accused of being biased at all. I think they want to b⛄e a fair broadcaster of the sport – credit where credit’s due and all that.

“They also do not want to be denied access to a very important figure in this sport. And I think Red Bull know that, and they app✅ly pressure if they need to.”

Damon Hill claims "Red Bull have a responsibility"

Hill made it clear♏:𒈔 “But I’m not anti-Max. This is the point. I think Max is brilliant. I like him. I mean what’s not to like? He’s sensational.

“But when I 🐓felt he overstepped the mark, I said so. And I think Red Bull have a responsibility, their team managem🅘ent has a responsibility, to the sport you know?

“If their﷽ driver goes over the limit on ✤occasion, they have a responsibility to say ‘You can’t do that.’

“And they don’t. That’s always♋ been my issue with them. That they have almost given Max carte blanche and protected their driver from not sticking to the code, if you lik𓄧e.”

Hill continued: “I’ll give ඣyou an example. [Last year] Max correctly interpreted to his advantage the rule about overtaking and being ahead a❀t the apex on the inside.

“There♉’s nothing in the rules that says you can’t do that. And it’s exciting to see people dive down the inside.

“Except that no other driver does 🅺it. And if someone was to do i🙈t to him, he’d cry like a baby.

“And that’s one of my issues with them. Red Bull simply can’t accept that. No, it really is slightly disappointing🧔, to say the least, that they lik💝e to be thought of as the hard kids on the block, but when something doesn’t go their way, they cry about it.

“As I say, I like Max. What I don’t like is jingoism. And I don’t like the fact that it became a 🌸‘You’re against us because we’re not British’ and all that nonsense, which was used as a way of pressuring us.

“It’s utterly unfair to suꩵggest that there is any kind of anti-Dutch thing going on. What can you do? I thought I was there t𒆙o express my opinion.”

Verstappen and his father Jos made blunt𒅌 accusations that unnamed members of the British media were biased against them last year.

Wheꦍn Verstappen ended his win-less run at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix wi🍌th a sensational wet-weather performance that displayed all of the best hallmarks of his ability, he teased that those British media members had run home to the airport.

His rivalry with McLaren’s Norris will be renewed this🐓 season.

They laughed off claims that their friendship had been damaged during pre-season Bahrain testing, jok🌠ing that they had “a fight in a local pub”.

But if Ver🅰stappen’s Red Bull is not the dominant force that it previously was, he could come togethe🧔r with the McLaren again.

McLaren ended last year as F1’s fastest car and will🌠 hope to retain that status at the season-opening Aust💜ralian Grand Prix on March 16.