Give Max a break

I smiled to myself when the fallout from the Max Verstappen and Esteban Ocon saga in the weighing room in Brazil created as much publicity as the actual incident.

Max justifiably felt he had been deprived of another win, and so was naturally angry. But to blame it on immaturity is ridiculous. I remember Michael Schumacher, then aged 29 and a double world champion, almost running down the Spa pitlane to try to land a punch on David Coulthard following their 1998 Belgian GP crash.

So give Max Verstappen a break. These guys risk their lives every race weekend and are allowed to blow their top occasionally.

Chris Eadie

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