Angered that Red Bull could get a “f***ing” DRS to work, Christian Horner says Max Verstappen had a moment of “road rage” during the Spanish Grand Prix.
Verstappen lined up on the Barcelona grid on the back of two consecutive race wins, determined to add a third to his run.
A mistake at Turn 4 as a gust of wind caught him out meant he dropped behind George Russell, but recovering to P2 was not an easy task as his DRS, which cost him a shot at pole position on Saturday, was only working intermittently.
Verstappen was furious, raging over the radio: “We can’t even make the f***ing DRS work, unbelievable!”
With the DRS working and then not working for a few laps, Red Bull also pointed out to their reigning World Champion that he was also opening and then closing it himself.
He told them that’s what happens when he has to press it “50 times” to try get it work.
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In the end it all worked out for the 24-year-old as he raced to the victory ahead of his team-mate Sergio Perez.
“There was a little road rage going on at that point which is understandable because he must have hit the button 50 times on one straight,” Horner told Sky Sports.
“It is something we need to get on top of.”
Sunday’s DRS trouble wasn’t the first reliability issue that Verstappen has suffered during a grand prix, the reigning World Champion already with two DNFs to his name because of car troubles.
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko weighed in, saying his driver is an “emotional racer” and Red Bull are okay with that.
“You have to calm him down,” he told the Dutch edition of Motorsport.com. “I mean, we were surprised by this problem ourselves and you still have to make the best of it.
“When he didn’t press the button on the kerb anymore, it worked properly. He’s just…
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