Azerbaijan Grand Prix preview: Time for Max Verstappen to settle down

Azerbaijan Grand Prix preview: Time for Max Verstappen to settle down

The stewards at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix have reprimanded both Red Bull drivers following their collision on lap 39 of Sunday's race. This is the worst scenario, that's the crappy part of it, that it's come to that.

When it was suggest that Verstappen moved under braking as Ricciardo moved to the inside, Horner replied: "Look, it's a racing accident".

They have clashed before, but this incident comes as Ricciardo is publicly considering a move to Ferrari or Mercedes for next season.

In the end, the Red Bull Racing pair came out on top at the Gobustan Reservation.

"We always let the drivers race, we don't have a number one, we don't have a number two, but we expect responsibility from the drivers".

The incident echoes an earlier generation of Red Bull rivalry.

"I would love to be challenged against the best and Lewis is arguably up there", Ricciardo said at the start of the weekend.

We thought about this once (with Hamilton and Nico Rosberg) but we didn't have to do it'.

The Briton and his championshipwinning Mercedes team have yet to win a race this year, the first time the German marque have been beaten for three straight races since the V6 turbo-hybrid era began back in 2014.

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ADGP, SK Singhal, said, " This is unacceptable.We will investigate matter & take strict action against him. The zonal Inspector Generals of police have been asked to probe the incidents and submit detailed reports.

The eighth-placed driver on this year's championship leaderboard is seen as a future world champion, having already won three Grands Prix, but he has also been advised to calm down by current and former drivers including his father and former F1 driver Jos. Laude told Sky Sports. Not apportioning blame on the incident to either of the drivers.

But while Verstappen only finished a tenth of a second behind Ricciardo, it was Kimi Raikkonen who eventually pushed the Australian closest, with the Ferrari driver just 0.069s off the leading benchmark. "If you move on him all the time where can the poor guy go?" he said.

But the blame is with Verstappen, as Niki Lauda made clear.

Although, if Danny Ricciardo has anything like the luck of his Aussie predecessor at Red Bull, the season he leaves the team will be the year it produces another dominant vehicle to sweep to the title. The 69-year-old Austrian, who was also critical of Verstappen after the last round in China, accused the young Dutchman of weaving in his attempt to stop Ricciardo from passing.

"No, it's a disaster and we had it once [at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix]".

"We had a lot of fun", said Max about the experience. "I find it fascinating that you encounter this landscape so close to the sea, it is really handsome".

"Obviously Daniel's out-lap wasn't as quick as Max's in-lap".

"Hamilton doesn't seem particularly happy at the moment, and I can imagine he will be super expensive to hire for his next Merc contract too".

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