Nico Rosberg’s sarcastic Max Verstappen statement after collision with Lewis Hamilton

Nico Rosberg sarcastically urged someone to tell Max Verstappen that it was in a corner where he collided with Lewis Hamilton in Hungary, after Verstappen blamed Hamilton.

Hamilton and Verstappen engaged in a thrilling two-parter at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with Hamilton successfully holding off Verstappen in part one, before Verstappen returned for another attack in the final stint as the former title rivals battled for the final podium spot. The end result was contact.

Nico Rosberg gets sarcastic in Max Verstappen vs Lewis Hamilton statement

Verstappen sent the ball down the inside of Hamilton into Turn 1, with Verstappen locking both front wheels and flying briefly through the air, hitting the right front wheel of Hamilton’s Mercedes.

Speaking to Sky F1 after the race, Verstappen pointedly pointed to Hamilton.

Asked if his frustrations spilled over into that battle, given that Verstappen had repeatedly voiced his frustrations over his strategy for the Hungarian GP on team radio, the Dutchman replied: “I don’t think so. I mean, I went for a move that was absolutely right.

“But then, right in the braking zone, when I’m already determined to brake, he suddenly keeps pulling to the right. If I hadn’t turned around while braking straight ahead, I would have hit him.

“So at one point I block, of course, because he just keeps turning to the right.

“People are obviously making a big deal about what happened in Austria, which is not true, blah, blah, blah, but that is on the first move and then you just brake straight. You keep your wheel quite straight. And I had the feeling that now it was not on the first move, then, during braking, it keeps turning to the right.

“You can’t do that when someone has committed on the inside. That’s why I locked up, because otherwise we would have collided anyway because he would have just turned on me.

“I don’t think it was wrong. I went for a move that was completely on. I don’t think I braked too late.”

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Hamilton’s former Mercedes teammate Rosberg, who was serving as Sky F1 analyst for the Hungarian GP, ​​did not share Verstappen’s opinion on the incident, sarcastically saying that someone should tell Verstappen that Hamilton was taking a corner, because they were at a corner.

“The frustration is starting to build and as spectators we are quite happy to see that, to be honest,” said Rosberg, “it’s a change from the dominance of Red Bull, isn’t it?

“But I’m assuming here that Max might not have seen it on TV yet, otherwise someone should tell him that it was actually a corner, and that’s why Lewis took the corner… I mean, Lewis took the corner!

“So I’m pretty sure he’ll get a penalty for that, five or ten seconds, and then he’ll end up behind Sainz.”

Ultimately, the stewards took no further action, allowing Verstappen to secure fifth position, where he finished after the collision with Hamilton.

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