When requested whether or not it was proper the reigning World Champion could be pressured to overlook a race, Russell identified the laws have been the identical for everybody.
“I believe that is the way it needs to be in racing,” he defined. “On the finish of the day in case you tackle dangerous strikes and also you get it incorrect you get penalised and, in case you get your factors, you may be banned for a race.
“I am not going to take a seat right here and say X, Y, Z as a result of it is in the end probably not my drawback. It is his drawback. I am trying ahead to the weekend after which go from there. That is racing.”
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Forward of the Canadian Grand Prix, Verstappen was additionally requested concerning the incident and the way being getting ready to a ban would change his method this weekend.
“There’s nothing I can do about it so we simply focus forward and attempt to do the perfect we will each single time,” he mentioned. “It’s not altering my method and I can not converse for others.
“For those who have a look at it normally, yeah, lacking a race will not be superb but it surely’s not the top of the world.”
