Max Verstappen has fired back at George Russell (Image: Getty)
has hit back at after the driver labelled the four-time world champion a ‘bully’ ahead of the .
The Dutchman ripped into Russell after the race in Qatar, expressing his frustration with the Brit’s ‘two-faced’ approach to handling their qualifying run-in. Verstappen ultimately received a one-place grid penalty following a heated trip to the stewards’ room.
Russell fired back in spectacular fashion on Thursday in Abu Dhabi. “I find it all quite ironic seeing as Saturday night he said he was going to purposefully go out of his way to crash into me and ‘Put me on my f—–g head in the wall’,” he said.
“So to question somebody’s integrity as a person, while saying comments like that the day before, I find is very ironic, and I’m not going to sit here and accept it. People have been bullied by Max for years now, and you can’t question his driving abilities. But he cannot deal with adversity.
“Whenever anything has gone against him — Jeddah ’21, Brazil ’21 — he lashes out. Budapest this year, the very first race the car wasn’t dominant, crashing into Lewis, slamming his team.”
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