“DID THEY HAVE TO RUN TO THE AIRPORT?”
Speaking at a press conference after the victory of the Brazilian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen reacted to the British media.Max Verstappen expressed his reaction to those who criticized him in the British media after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix race.The Dutch driver, who previously said that he had the “wrong passport” for Formula 1, took the Brazilian Grand Prix in the rain for the 17th. He won by going up. This brilliant victory carried him 62 points ahead of Norris.
Enjoying his success on Sunday, Verstappen attended the mandatory press conference after the race.The 1996 world champion and Sky commentator Damon Hill’s comparison to the character of Dick Dastardly in the film Wacky Races, and Johnny Herbert, a former Sky commentator and now a FIA race referee, had annoyed Verstappen’s recent comments that Verstappen had a “bad mentality in the run”.
In fact, Herbert also praised the Dutch driver’s talents, but the impression he left on Verstappen was that Herbert was targeting him. This thought was reinforced in Mexico, where Herbert was a race referee, with the FIA giving a 10-second penalty to Verstappen twice.
Verstappen said at the post-race press conference in Brazil yesterday: “I have a short question here. I appreciate that you are all here, but I don’t see any British press!”
“Do they have to run to the airport or don’t they know where the press conference is?”
Pierre Gasly, who finished the race in third place, was also there for the press conference and laughed at these words and added: “This is a fair question.”
Verstappen, who was able to declare his championship in Las Vegas on November 23, told Mail Sport before the British Grand Prix in July: “80 to 85 percent of the press in F1 is English. So you have a pretty dominant power in this regard. In the corner of their minds, many prefer their own national pilots to succeed, or in the event of an accident, they naturally choose the side of their citizens.”
“Most of the former pilots are British, so it’s a bit of a one-sided matter.”
