The former world champion makes discussing by comparing the contact between Verstappen and George in Spain to the famous clash of Sepang in the world championship. And then he adds: “The black flag would have been right”
Max Verstappen like Valentino Rossi in Sepang in 2015. Word of Nico Rosberg. The German, former world champion in F1, has no doubts: the rash of the Dutchman on Red Bull against George Russell, Spain, closely recalls the maneuver performed by the Italian against Marc Marquez in the Malaysian GP, played 10 years ago. A parallelism with MotoGP destined to make people discuss. But Rosberg’s attack in Verstappen does not stop there. According to Nico, in fact, Max has deserved a much harder sanction than the 10 ” penalties remedied for the bag to Mercedes.
F1, Verstappen and contact with Russell
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Rosberg’s first hit comes through the microphones of Sky Sport UK: “When I saw the contact between Verstappen and Russell, I immediately thought of Valentino Rossi’s maneuver against Marc Marquez in Malaysia in 2015”. Words that bring back 10 years. The penultimate round of the MotoGP World Cup was ran to Malaysia. Rossi accused Marquez of promoting compatriot Jorge Lorenzo in the race for the title. Marc, angry, replied on the track dueling for third place with Valentino. A challenge made of very hard overtaking, up to the contact between the two pilots, which expressed the Spaniard from the race.
The sanction in Verstappen
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According to Rosberg, the episode of Barcelona deserves only one penalty: the disqualification. German does not use half measures speaking to Sky Sport Deutschland: “The Verstappen maneuver was really bad. He hit Russell about it”. So the penalty of 10 ” appears too bland in the eyes of Nico: “Slowing and leaving another pilot is a horrible thing to do. Remember Vettel against Hamilton in Baku 2017? It seemed very intentional. Max would have deserved the black flag, there is no other choice”. Strong words, which have found a reply from Red Bull. In fact, Christian Horner, team manager of the Austrian team, repeated by speaking to the media present in Spain: “Nico comments in a fairly sensationalist way. So we forget it”.
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