Helmut Marko didn’t address 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen's controversial incident with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix but alluded to “a certain frustration” that clouded th𒆙e four-time world🥀 champion.

The main talking point from Sunday’s race at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was Verstaꦺppen’s seemingly deliberate collision with Russell.

The race turned on its head after 👍the Safety Car because Verstappen was forced to ru𒆙n on the hard tyres.

Red Bull elected to put Verstappen on a three-stop strategy, which mea✤nt he had run out of softs.

On the hards, Verstappen was left vulnerable and immediately overtaken by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc, Russell tried to overtake♔ 🎀but forced Verstappen off at Turn 1.

Verstappen kept the position by going off track, leading Red Bull to incorrectly tell their star driver to let Russell thr♓ough.

This led to the moment of cont💛rovꦐersy where Verstappen collided with Russell at Turn 5.

Speaking to Sky Germany after♉ the race, Marko didn’t directly reference the incident.

“I would say he was drꦯiving in front for a long time, and then because of this tyre choice,” Marko said.

“But as I said, we had nothing else and didn’t know that this tyre would be so bad in the warm-up phase. There was a certain frustration and that expressed itself in t♛he driving ▨style.”

Marko admits hard tyre was “wrong”

The✅ timing of the Safety Car meant Red Bull were in a tricky posit💝ion.

They could have kept Verstappen out on worn softs and given him track position oveꦯr the McLarens.

Instead, they put h🍃im on the unfancied hard tyre, which no team used in the 66-lap r𝄹ace.

The hard tyre had difficulties warming up, causing Verstap☂pen to have a huge oversteer moment onღ the exit of the final corner.

This cost him third to Leclerc after they briefly touched on the sta💖rt-finish straight.

“We realised we had to🔯 take a risk to have any chance at all,” Marko explained.

“And that was the three-stop. Unfortunately,🌃 the🅠 safety car got in the way at the end.

“We only had the hard tyre left and that was definitely the wrong tyre. That tyre was esp𝐆ecially bad during warm-up.

“And🥃 we saw Max’s evasive manoeuvre [after the restart]. But that’s how it goes: if you take a risk, it can also go the other way.

“Max obviously saw that he had no grip because of the 🌱bad tyre and he almost lost control. And then there was the situation with Leclerc.🐼 I don’t want to go into details about this either.”