Max Verstappen says his Formula 1 radio outburst in the Spanish Grand Prixꦜ was down to a series of strategic de🦩cisions made by Red Bull in Barcelona.

Verstappen managed to get ahead of Valtteri Bo🥃ttas on the opening lap but struggled🧸 to stick with eventual race winner Lewis Hamilton in the opening soft tyre stint.

As Verstappen continued to lose time to Hamilton, the Dutchman became audibly frustrated over team radio with Red Bull’s decision not🌟 to stop him for fresh rubber.

“Do you want me to repeat it again? The ﷽[censored] tyre is dead,” Verstappen said.

Reꦺd Bull opted to keep Verstappen out to ensure he di꧟d not pit and come into traffic - a factor Verstappen didn’t care about.

“I’m losing so much time,” Verstappen added. “Who cares if they [the Raci༒ng Points] get in front, I’m easily faster.”

After he finally made his first stop, the 𒉰Dutchman continued to vent hisꦛ frustration.

“How about we just focus on our race, first, for a start instead of looking at Lewis⛎? Because clearly on the soft tyre we were not as fast as them. So can we just make sure we do our job and let them to their job?,” he said.

Verstappen explained his outburst in the poওst-race press conference: 

“At the end of the day you can’t control what they’r𝐆e doing, you can only control what we do so we just have to make sure we do the fastest strategy possible for us.

“I wanted to pit, and they didn’t call me in. I was massively struggling on the tyres and I lost quite a lot of lap time over the last two laps and I already said on the radio I don’t care if you put me out behind the Racing points because I will pass them easily because we’re a lot faster, especially on new tyres so that was the co♈nversation.♐”

Verstappen now trails Hamilton by 37 points in the drivers' ✤championship after six rounds.