Verstappen refuses to budge on driving style

As Nico Rosberg secured his sixth victory of the 2016 Formula One season, all the drama unfolded behind him, including another thrilling battle between Red Bull’s Verstappen and Ferrari’s Raikkonen.

Most experts believed Vettel was to blame for the incident, as he had not given enough room to the two inside cars.

Raikkonen said: “Obviously, it was unfortunate”.

“I’ll just do my own thing and show my driving style like it was before”, Verstappen said.

Vettel, however, suggested that Verstappen was also culpable.

Sebastian Vettel says his first impressions of Ferrari’s upgraded engine are promising, although the German says he wants to wait for the Monza weekend to play out before making a definitive judgment.

Max has been painted as the villain in all this, but if you had to blame anyone for the first incident, then, harshly, it would probably be Seb for turning in, although he wouldn’t have expected Max to be lunging up the inside.

“For qualifying at least for us it is trying to get the most out of the tire on one lap in qualifying”. “The room I gave for Kimi was not for three cars”.

The Ferraris were pushed wide during the incident and, as a outcome, Raikkonen nudged into the side of Vettel.

On the other hand, Villeneuve did claim that there is nothing wrong with rough driving but since Verstappen’s driving was too risky, it deserved punishment.

“We have nothing to be ashamed of”, responded Vettel. “We just need to make it feel good in every corner”.

“It’s the moving in the braking (zone) which is the wrong thing. I think tomorrow we can have a good day, we need to improve the auto, focus on ourselves, and then we can be a lot closer”.

“Personally, I have nothing against Max”.

“It is hard, the important thing is to be consistent with the judgements but it is always going to be hard as no situation is the same but it can always be improved”, said Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg.

“It’s not the place to start acting silly in a way and paying back for something that has happened”. Whiting met with Verstappen and Red Bull team manager Jonathan Wheatley at Monza on Friday morning ahead of FP1, with team principal Christian Horner confirming it resulted in a soft warning for the Dutchman. Firstly, give the guy a break, he is 18 years old. We’ll see a bit more tomorrow.