This time Max Verstappen did not bite and instead chose his words carefully.
Having been punished to do ‘some work of public interest’ for giving his forthright views in a televised press conference in Singapore last year, the F1 world champion was not going to make the same mistake again. Back then, he was slapped with community service for swearing, which ultimately saw him hauled to Rwanda ahead of the FIA prize-giving ceremony last December.
Instead, this time he put it diplomatically and succinctly when he was asked about his thoughts about McLaren’s rear wing flexing during the Japanese GP.
“I’m not disappointed in that. Everyone is trying to do their best and some people read the regulations a bit differently”, he said during his Dutch media session at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Thursday. “I don’t make the rules. And I’m also not the one enforcing them either."
The subject was raised again after a video emerged on X (Twitter) showing clips of the McLaren rear wing during the Japanese GP, which appears to flex under load. For context, a video of the Red Bull rear wing is also attached to the short clip, but does not flex to the same extreme.
