Red Bull have explained their decision to ask 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen to cede position to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell𒆙 during their controversial late battle at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.

Verstappen clashed with Russell at Turn 1 foll𒈔owing a late Safety Car restart, resulting in the Red Bull driver taking to the escape road and retaining track position ahead o𝔍f the Mercedes.

Red Bull instructed Verstappen 🐼to give the place back to Russell, much to the four-t൩ime world champion’s dismay, though it appeared that he was obliging until he ran into the side of Russell at Turn 5 in a red-mist moment.

The incident earned Versta🦂ppen a 10-second penalty which ꦯultimately dropped him to 10th.

"I🙈t was very, very marginal," Horner told media including&nbs🔯p; after Sunday’s race.

"It looked for all intents and purposes that it was going to be a penalty, so therefore the instruction was given to Max to give that place back, which he was obviously upset and annoyed about be☂cause he felt that, one, he'd been left no space and, two, that George hadn't been fully in cont꧂rol.

"It's very hard for the te🌺am to try and make that call because you're going on historic🐈al precedents. You're trying to pre-empt what the stewards and the race directors are thinking.

“So, I think it would be beneficial to the teams, in that instance, for the race director to make that call and say you either give it back or you get a penalty, rather than having to try and second-guess🍒 what the stewards are g♑oing to think.

"Max was obviously upset because, first of all, he's had Leclerc take a sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚwipe at him on the straight. And then he's got dive-bombed at Turn 1 by George. And the way that these reg🤪ulations are now, it's all about where that front axle is.

"We've seen so many occasions this year where penalties have been given. We've seen it been noted. We've seen it gone to the stewards. The next thing is, you're expecting to get a penal🌜ty. So that's why it was: 'OK, you know what? We're g🦩oing to have to give this place up.'"

Why did Red Bull put Verstappen on hard tyres?

Verstappen was left frustrated by Red 🌌Bull’s decision to pit him under the late Safety Car and swap him onto fresh hard tyres.

Horner explained this was beᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚcause Verstappen had no other fresh tyres available and Red Bull were concerned he would be left a sitting-duck had he stayed out on eight-lap old soft tyres with his rivals all on new red-walled tyres.

"The safety car came out at probably the worst possible time in terms of our strategy, because you're faced with the choice of – do you stay out o🌃n an eight-lap old, heavily pushed soft tyre, at which point you would get eaten up at the restart, and it looked like there would be circa 10 racing laps left," Horner said.

"Unfortunately, the only set of tyres that we had available was a new set of hards. Our feeling was that a new set of hards was better than an e🌺ight-lap-old, heavily degraded set of softs. You don't want to stay on that set of tyres because you know everybody else has taken a fresh set.”

Horner conceded that 💙in hindsight Red Bull would have probꦅably been better off keeping Verstappen out in the lead on his eight-lap old softs.

"In 20/20 hindsight, you'd have left him out. He would have got passed by the two McLarens. Wouಌld he have got passed by Leclerc? You never know,” Horner said.

“You make a decision with the information you hav﷽e at hand. The risk with going onto the three-stop is that in a safety car scenario, in the last third of the race or quarter of the race, you're exposed."