Leclerc pissed off: “You don’t overtake like that”

It was clear to the Monegasque: “That’s not how you overtake.” Helmut Marko described Verstappen’s victory as “completely beyond doubt”. “Leclerc ran out of road at some point,” commented the Red Bull eminence of the spectacular duel on the 69th lap, which saw Verstappen frenetically cheered by his Dutch fans Victory brought. The Red Bull driver had squeezed past Leclerc on the inside of the right-hand bend after the Orange Grandstand, who briefly left the track after the cars made slight contact.

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“He didn’t give me any space to come back,” explained Leclerc, who remained calm on the outside.

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“I was on the outside like I was in the previous round. On the previous lap it was totally fine, he left enough space for a car next to him at the corner exit, but he didn't do that afterwards. He touched me, I had to move to the outside and had no chance of overtaking Max again,” said the 21-year-old, who lost his first race win in the final phase of a race, as he did in Bahrain. Verstappen defends himself “The second time I braked a little later in the corner. Of course we had a little contact,” explained Verstappen. “This is hard racing. It's better than just following each other and having a boring race.” Marko agreed with his protégé. “There is no debate at all,” said the Styrian after Honda’s first victory as an engine manufacturer since 2006. If such incidents were punishable, they would “just go to the stewards.”

Three years ago there was a spectacular final phase at the short Red Bull Ring with a similarly controversial maneuver. Mercedes teammates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton clashed at the front on the last lap - not for the first time this season. Rosberg gave Hamilton little space, but fell back to fourth place due to the ultimately botched maneuver. Four hours after the end of the race, the stewards declared Rosberg the cause of the collision and handed him a ten-second time penalty. The German remained fourth in the classification. At the end of 2016 he became world champion.

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Leclerc pissed off: “You don’t overtake like that”

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