Why Verstappen's moment of madness in the Spanish GP wasn't all his own doing
The deliberate-looking collision with George Russell during the Spanish Grand Prix was egregious – but Max Verstappen doesn’t carry the weight of responsibility alone
Having attended the Spanish Grand Prix, you leave Barcelona feeling privileged if you can hand your hire car back without its back window stoved in and anything you’d been daft enough to leave stashed in the boot being hawked around the local trattorias for cash.
At the risk of inflaming the ire of those who habitually jam the section ‘below the line’ with ad hominem twaddle about ‘byAs BriTish jUrnuLizm’ and such, Max Verstappen was pretty fortunate to hotfoot it to El Prat and step aboard his plane with just his luggage and three extra penalty points on his licence. You need to regard the incident between Max and George Russell at Turn 5 after the Safety Car restart through some highly specialised optics, while performing a mental gymnastics routine worthy of at least a 5.9, to conclude that this was anything other than a dangerous moment of madness.
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