Verstappen Claims Vettel Has Not Apologised for Singapore Clash

After tangling with both Ferraris in Singapore, Red Bull driver Max Verstappen was fuming. In the subsequent investigation, the stewards adjudged it a racing incident. However, Verstappen had a different opinion on the situation. He felt that Vettel was at fault for the incident. Afterwards when interviewed, he said that Vettel had not apologised for the accident. Verstappen said “No. He did say something like, ‘yes, in hindsight things could have been done differently’. But what’s done is done. Vettel is fighting for the championship, so you don’t need to take so much risk if you know that Hamilton starts fifth. If this would have been with Hamilton then it would have been a completely different story. From his side, I don’t understand that something like this happens.”

During the race, a tweet was sent out via the Scuderia Ferrari Twitter handle. That tweet laid the blame in the Dutchman’s direction. However, Ferrari claimed that the tweet did not come out from the team’s communications department. Jos Verstappen was also of the opinion that Max was not to blame.

“If you look at the images, Raikkonen comes to the right and steers in,” said Jos Verstappen. “But if you look at the footage more closely, you can also see that Vettel comes to the left, and Max is in between them. He can’t go the left and he can’t go to the right. You can hardly blame Max for any of this.”

One can surely sympathise with Verstappen after he has recorded his 7th retirement of the season. Max is clearly frustrated because he had the chance to finally get the monkey of his back. A costly crash like this has only allowed the would to fester even more.