George Russell has labelled Max Verstappen pathetic for his behaviour after their collision through the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Verstappen referred to as Russell a “d—head” after the Mercedes driver pressured him huge through the Baku dash race.
The reigning world champion later referred to Russell as “Princess George” in an interview with the Dutch media.
Russell likened Verstappen’s response to a child spitting out a pacifier, declaring that the Crimson Bull driver is thought for comparable aggressive strikes.
“It was all a bit of bit pathetic,” Russell informed Sky when requested in regards to the response. “One thing you be taught as a child is that if you are going to give one thing, you have to be keen to take it as nicely.
“He is had his fair proportion of giving strikes like that and being robust and onerous at racing. It is a bit of bit poor to see how he form of spat his dummy out when it was the primary time he most likely acquired one thing again in the identical regard.”
Russell doesn’t anticipate the incident to develop into a lingering challenge.
“From my aspect there was nothing actually to say,” he mentioned. “I believed it was good racing, thrilling racing. That is the one factor that occurred that weekend, it was fairly boring in any other case!
“We’re each drivers, we have been within the sport a very long time now and we’ve loads of expertise. We’ll have a chat and transfer on. And I assume we’ll snigger about it sooner or later.”