Max Verstappen slammed the delay in bringing out the purple flag for Lance Stroll’s crash following his personal shock Q2 exit on the F1 Brazilian Grand Prix.
The Pink Bull driver’s world championship hopes suffered a significant blow on Sunday morning after he was eradicated in Q2 at Interlagos. It means he’ll begin seventeenth.
He was already heading into the Sao Paulo weekend figuring out he had a five-place grid penalty, as his battle with title rival Lando Norris intensified.
However with Sunday morning’s moist qualifying circumstances trying like they may have supplied him a chance to tug off a shock in opposition to Norris, all of it went incorrect within the closing phases of the second qualifying phase.
Verstappen had failed to enhance because the monitor circumstances steadily received higher via the ultimate minutes and, after slipping all the way down to twelfth, he was caught out by a crash involving Lance Stroll as he tried a ultimate effort to get via.
With the yellow flags out as Verstappen handed the stricken Aston Martin at Flip 3, he needed to again off – and he knew there can be no different try and make it via after the purple flag was ultimately introduced out.
Conscious of the implications of the stoppage, Verstappen gesticulated within the cockpit and expressed his frustration over the workforce radio as he knew that the session wouldn’t be restarted.
Talking to Sky after the session, a clearly agitated Verstappen mentioned he didn’t perceive why there had been a delay in stopping the session.
“If a man goes straight into the wall, it’s a straight purple,” he mentioned. “I do not perceive why you might want to take 30, 40 seconds for a purple flag to return out…”
When advised it had been to permit some drivers to complete their laps, he replied: “I don’t care in all honesty, it’s so silly to speak about. It’s ridiculous.”
Pink Bull workforce boss Christian Horner echoed his driver’s frustrations after qualifying when talking to Sky Sports activities F1: “It is massively irritating in a session like that, there’s clearly an enormous quantity occurring.
“I do not perceive why it took so lengthy for the purple flag to return out for clearly an enormous accident. Flip 3 and one of the harmful corners on the circuit. It took 40 seconds to throw the purple flag and it is the second day in a row now that we have had very late calls, whether or not it was a VSC yesterday or the purple flag at present, the opposite purple flags have been all instantaneous.
“So very, very harsh. However it’s what it’s. We have got to attempt to struggle again this afternoon.”
Verstappen’s Q2 exit marked a double blow for Pink Bull, together with his team-mate Sergio Perez additionally failing to make it via to Q3 after he ended up thirteenth.
Together with his five-place grid drop for a recent engine, Verstappen will now line up seventeenth on the grid.