Max Verstappen known as it “unbelievable” that race management took 40 seconds to throw a pink flag late in Q2 that has left him beginning seventeenth on the Sao Paulo Grand Prix as soon as his five-place grid penalty for a brand new inside combustion engine is utilized.
A number of crashes delayed Sunday morning’s qualifying session within the rain, with Lance Stroll going off late in Q2. On the time, Verstappen was tenth, however with the session persevering with underneath double waved yellows to permit these forward of the crash to finish their laps, Verstappen was pushed down into the drop zone in twelfth place by the point the pink flag got here out.
“I discover it unbelievable,” Verstappen mentioned. “The automotive goes into the wall, damaged, it’s clearly destroyed, however they wait 30-40 seconds so all people else can simply full their lap instances, and naturally those behind can’t even do a lap.
“I can’t get my head round it, how that’s attainable to simply let it go for 30 seconds, 40 seconds, and that in fact ruins qualifying. We’re already restricted with the pits as a result of we’re on the again, so if you do the restart time it’s a must to wait till you exit so we’re all the time within the again. It actually blows my thoughts.”
Verstappen described the state of affairs as “bulls**t” to Sky Sports activities, including “Truthfully, I’ll let it go, it’s so silly to speak about it’s ridiculous.”
With a five-place grid penalty for exceeding energy unit elements already confirmed, Verstappen is ready to start out from seventeenth on the grid, and though he might be promoted a variety of positions resulting from crash harm for different vehicles, he’s anticipating a troublesome race.
“Beginning far within the again so might be fairly tough to cross right here with the spray and the rain,” he mentioned, “so we’ll take a look.”
