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Verstappen - "I've been angrier" after Bahrain outburst

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Sam Hall

Monday 21 March 2022 12:35 Updated: 12:44

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Max Verstappen claimed to "have been angrier" after calling out his Red Bull team for a 'lack of aggression' with its strategy during the F1 season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

Verstappen retired in Bahrain with three laps remaining after spending the vast majority of the 57-lap race second to Ferrari driver and race-winner Charles Leclerc.

After the second round of pit stops, however, Verstappen lit up his team radio with a rant saying: "This is two times I've taken it easy on the out-lap and I could have been in the lead. I'm never doing it again!"

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Explaining his frustrations after being instructed to slowly ease his tyre into the working window rather than push hard on his out laps, Verstappen said: “I’ve been angrier before.

“I don’t hold back. I say what I think in the car and I was unhappy with what we were doing, the balance with the car that I had [and] with the strategy.

"This was not necessarily directed at GP [race engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase] because I have a really good relationship with him but, of course, he is the only one I can talk to.

“But we have to analyse quite a few things.”

After the first round of stops, Verstappen and Leclerc engaged in a heated battle with the pair passing and repassing each other on three consecutive laps.

On his see-saw battle, Verstappen added: “It was good, and it was good fighting and Charles is a good racer as well so it was good fun out there."

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