In hindsight, the fiery blow-up was somewhat inevitable. In the scorching heat of the Catalan sun on Sunday, enraged as a plethora of events rapidly unravelled against him, Max Verstappen eventually overheated. It’s not the first time; it won’t be the last.
The first thing to note is that his erratic swerve into the side of arch-rival George Russell in the final laps of Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix was clearly deliberate. Russell was fortunate he did not sustain race-ending damage. If he did, the punishment for Verstappen would have been worse than a 10-second time penalty. A disqualification may have been inevitable.
