Max Verstappen noticed that he was being booed round by British fans who couldn’t forgive him for blocking Lewis Hamilton’s tilt in his eighth world title, so in the sunken Silverstone. Raw tribalism was in the air.
Alongside the first pole sitter Carlos Sainz, it wasn’t a problem that Red Bull had just been in the front row and that it was a chaotic qualifying session around the car. He couldn’t even hear a question from on-track interviewer Billy Monger, as the grandstand along the home straight was still ridiculing him loudly.
The champion was both dissatisfied and disappointed with the reaction. “It was a little disappointing,” Verstappen said. “I didn’t really understand Billy-it was a problem. But if they want to boo, they do it. For me, it’s not going to change anything. Maybe some of them I Some people don’t like it. That’s good. They all have their own opinions and I don’t care. “
All of this noisy reception prior to the British Grand Prix began with an amazing finale in Abu Dhabi last season. There, with the final decision of race director Michael Masi to bring in a safety car, Verstappen wiped out Hamilton with new tires and gained glory. ..
There is also a lasting memory of the Dutch first clashing with Hamilton here 12 months ago. This is a much worse case, given that he was pinballed by the barrier with the power of 53G.
Many Hamilton Die Hards never allow Verstappen to gate crash the driver’s coronation at Yas Marina. But given that Hamilton has completely blamed the heckler, it’s a hostility they may be concerned about rethinking. “I absolutely don’t agree with boos,” he said. “We’re better than that. You don’t have to do that. We need to push everyone here. If someone has already made a mistake, it makes no difference to boo someone. . “
Verstappen made two notable mistakes and lost Paul’s perspective. Shortly after brilliantly losing grip at the exit of the stow and somehow regaining a 360 degree spin, he misjudged the brakes when entering the veil on the next lap and ran too deep. It was all invitations that some of this strong crowd of 100,000 needed to ridicule and bark on the day of the Silverstone shower.