Max Verstappen dismissed criticism of his driving following his double penalty within the Mexican Grand Prix and denied F1’s racing guidelines have to be tightened up.
The stewards handed the Crimson Bull driver two 10-second time penalties for a pair of incidents along with his closest championship rival Lando Norris on the identical lap of final weekend’s race.
Among the many critics of Verstappen’s driving was 1996 world champion Damon Hill, who mentioned Verstappen “made no try and again off and make the nook and depart room for Lando,” when the pair went off the observe at flip seven final weekend. “You shouldn’t be allowed to make use of your automotive as a weapon and easily block the observe,” added Hill.
Verstappen dismissed Hill’s feedback after they had been put to him throughout as we speak’s FIA press convention. “I don’t hearken to these people,” he mentioned. “I simply do my factor. I’m a three-time world champion. I feel I do know what I’m doing.”
He mentioned he’s solely within the views of “folks which might be goal and near me.”
“Some persons are simply being very annoying and I do know who these persons are,” he added. “I don’t actually pay quite a lot of consideration to them anyway.
“I’ve bought to this stage in my profession with the fitting folks supporting me and making my very own selections so I feel I do know what I’m doing.”
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“Some persons are only a bit biased,” he added.
Requested whether or not he would alter his method to racing given the penalties he collected in Mexico, Verstappen mentioned: “I’ve heard that earlier than in my profession, so it’s my tenth 12 months in Components 1, I feel I do know what I’m doing.”
A number of drivers have urged the FIA to revise its racing guidelines to curb Verstappen’s tactic of deliberately working off-track in a nook to stop a rival overtaking him. However Verstappen mentioned there is no such thing as a want so as to add extra guidelines.
“It’s by no means going to be good as a result of even should you take away guidelines, then you definitely get right into a battle, then you definitely need extra guidelines as a result of it’s not clear what’s allowed or not,” he mentioned. “Then when you could have too many guidelines, you need fewer guidelines. It simply retains on going left and proper on a regular basis.
“Do I feel it’s over-regulated? Most likely sure. I imply, basically, the rule e book is barely getting greater and larger each single 12 months. I don’t assume that’s all the time the fitting method ahead.”
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