[Motorsport]: George Russell responds to Max Verstappen’s comments in Qatar

Baku 2023 post sprint interview. Never change

Bro if this gets them hyped up enough to ditch the bullshit PR written answers every other driver gives in interviews, I’m all for it.

Full quotes in this article: https://racer.com/2024/12/05/russell-reveals-verstappen-threat-in-remarkable-attack/

(emphasis mine)

> “He said, ‘I don’t know why you would want to screw me like this, I’m so disappointed in you. I was going to not even race you tomorrow, I was going to let you by, but now if I have to, __I will purposely go out of my way to put you on your f****** head in the wall__.’ So I don’t understand why he was so unnecessarily aggressive and violent in that regard.

> “But we’ve got a guy who’s on the top of this sport who feels he’s above the law, and I don’t think that’s right.

> “I admire his on-track battles, and when he’s hard and aggressive. But what we saw in the end of the season in ’21 or what we saw in Mexico with Lando, they weren’t hard, aggressive maneuvers. **They were ‘do or die. I’m willing to take this guy out’**. Which I don’t think is the way we should go racing.

> “I honestly just want to set the record straight, to be honest. Because it’s just a total double standard that he has for the regulations, and just **thinking that he is above everybody else**.

> “So it’s not me trying to assert my leadership style or anything. It’s just somebody has come out and said that I’m a two-faced motherf****r, and he’s entitled to his own opinions. But coming out and saying that publicly, and slamming me publicly, I’m just not going to accept it, and __I’m going to tell people what the reality was__.

> “He pushes himself to the absolute limit week in, week out, and in 95 percent of the scenarios, that is incredible to see, and **I respect him for that 95 percent**. But there have been incidents that have gone unpunished. Maybe that is why he thinks he can get away with murder. But that is not the world we live in, and actions have consequences.”

> “It can’t just keep going on like that. For me, it’s interesting, this whole regard with him and his own team,” he said. “They’re doing their utmost to get [Christian] Horner out of Red Bull, but at the very first race that he wasn’t competitive, he was absolutely slamming his team, and I know for a fact the week after, a **quarter of his engineering team were sending their CVs to Mercedes, to McLaren, to Aston**.

> “So **I don’t respect somebody who doesn’t appreciate those who have given him the chance to perform**, because these last 12 races, he has had a car that is of normal competitiveness, and he’s been in the fight the same way as myself, Lewis (Hamilton), Charles (Leclerc), Carlos (Sainz), Lando and (Oscar) Piastri have been. And that’s how it should be.

> “I feel like we all need to lead by example here. He’s the biggest, most successful guy in the sport for the last couple of years. He can do what he wants in his own business, but when he starts throwing comments around like he did on Sunday night about me, I’m not just going to sit there and accept it.”

Edit: this part was missing in my quote above:

> I just don’t know why other drivers have when they’ve been in this battle with him, just sort of made it so easy and just let it be.

> Lewis is a world champion who I aspire to be like, and I think he is a gold standard of a role model that younger kids should be looking up to. And the way Lewis dealt with that championship fight, he was hard, he was aggressive, he was always respectful, and he never went beyond the line.

> You can go beyond the line in making a slight misjudgement, **but going out of your way to say you will purposefully crash into somebody and put them on their head is beyond the line**.

> “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 [Hamilton], slamming his team…

> “For me, those comments on Saturday night and Sunday were totally disrespectful and unnecessary. Because what happens on track, we fight hard, that’s part of racing. **What happens in the stewards’ room, you fight hard, but it’s never personal**. But he’s taken it too far now.”

This season ain’t letting go with off track drama isn’t it?

Max vs Lewis walked so Max vs Russell could run

Enjoy the drama folks. We have been deprived of proper rivalries for way too long

Ho! Ho! Ho! Love me some spicy shit

Praying to the racing gods that Red Bull and Mercedes are in a genuine title fight next year.

> 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, very first race, the car wasn’t dominant, crashing into Lewis, slamming his team.
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> As I said, for me, those comments on Saturday night and Sunday were totally disrespectful and unnecessary, — because what happens on track, we fight hard. It’s part of racing. What happens in the steward’s room? You fight hard, but it’s never personal. But you know, he’s taking it too far now.
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> I just don’t know why other drivers have when they’ve been in this battle with him, just sort of made it so easy and just let it be.
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> Lewis is a world champion who I aspire to be like, and I think he is a gold standard of a role model that younger kids should be looking up to. And the way Lewis dealt with that championship fight, he was hard, he was aggressive, he was always respectful, and he never went beyond the line.
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> You can go beyond the line in making a slight misjudgement, but going out of your way to say you will purposefully crash into somebody and put them on their head is beyond the line.

>— George Russell [via Autosport]

I am experiencing the same bloodlust that Roman peasants got when saying gladiators fight.

BITE EACH OTHER DICKS OFF!!

I like how he doesn’t deny what happened at the stewards.

Reported to the FIA i guess.

Like or dislike him, I think Russell has more of the required attitude to go up against Verstappen than Norris and Leclerc have.

Here’s hoping these two fight for the title in 25 so we can have another Rush type movie made.

Let us hope that Red Bull and Mercedes get their bumber cars running!

Russell vs Max. Please. We could also have Charles vs George vs Max. Now that’s really nuclear level meltdown.

Drive to Survive bait 10/10 from both sides☠️

Bluds will get two episodes for no reason