MONTREAL– Max Verstappen pledged to “race like I always do” regardless of discovering himself on the sting of a one-race restriction.
Even a small disobedience at this weekend break’s Canadian Grand Prix or the Austrian Grand Prix may sideline the ruling globe champ for the next event.
The Dutchman’s debatable bang proper into the facet of George Russell’s Mercedes 2 weeks earlier in Spain relocated him to 11 cost elements, one removed from the optimum admitted a 12-month length.
Verstappen, famend for his all-or-nothing methodology to close quarters competing, assured to stick with that mind-set all through the next 2 weeks.
“No, nothing changes. No [change in approach],” he claimed. “I cannot just back out of everything. I’m just going to race like I always do, I trust myself. Is it fair that I’m on 11 points? I don’t know. But at the same time, life isn’t fair. I don’t worry about it, I just come here to race and I will always race hard.”
“I’m not here, of course, to try and get a ban.”
Penalty elements might be given out by the guardians for a sequence of factors from triggering an accident to not lowering correctly for a web-based safety car.
Asked if he assumes its affordable he has really found himself on a cusp of a restriction, he claimed: “I don’t want to enter that to be sincere. I imply, what’s honest?
“If you contemplate it like that. I don’t stress over it. I merely come beneath to race.
“And I will always race hard. Race how I think I should race. And then we go on to the next race.”
Verstappen had really initially been unapologetic within the media conferences after the Spanish Grand Prix, though he afterward shared a weblog put up to social media websites stating the incidence with Russell “was not right” and “shouldn’t have happened.”
The Dutch motorist minimize wanting a public apology to Russell, nevertheless confessed the minute had really been a mistake of reasoning on his element.
“[The post was] sharing my view of issues, how I assumed that race panned out. Not splendid for me, however that was my assertion. And then I went again to having fun with my day.
“It was an error, you recognize, plainly in the edge. But you do not require to enter into complete information of why, just how and what. Everyone makes blunders in life. Everyone gains from them and we simply go on.”
Verstappen is third within the champion, 39 elements behind McLaren’s Lando Norris.
