Lewis Hamilton is blamed for crazy driving incident among Max Verstappen, Daniil Kvyat and Hamilton himself during second session of qualifying at Austin Grand Prix.
However, Stewards gave Hamilton the benefit of doubt and did not start any investigation to the event where Verstappen was forced to go off-track.
Verstappen showed his anger over the radio to the team. He said: “Lewis fucked us all so it’s his fucking problem this, what’s happening.”
Verstappen lost his position to Hamilton over the turn 16 during their final try during Q2. Kvyat was infront of them who was left behind by Hamilton.
But at the same time Verstappen chased Hamilton to surpass him during turn 19. He was successful after the incident at the end of the corner.
“We were all lining up to do our lap,” said Verstappen. “It was Seb, the first Ferrari, then Charles. And then I had Danny [Kvyat] in front of me.
“We were all just slowing down to make space and Lewis just drove by like nobody was there and didn’t care. So I was like, well if you don’t care I don’t care. I wanted to get my position back because everybody is just respecting each other at that point just to start the lap. And that’s why it was such a close call.”
Kvyat also blamed Hamilton for the incident.
“I don’t know what they were doing to be honest,” he said. “It was quite stupid – not stupid, but just not necessary. I don’t understand why they were racing on their out-laps so much.
“In the end it just made a mess of all three of us, compromised the lap of all three of us, I had to start the lap with very cold tyres, but still it was OK.”
“Normally you want to have a order but if some other drivers don’t respect this order then this mess happens,” Kvyat added. “I think it was Lewis particularly.
“But it doesn’t matter. If it’s Q2 he’s already in Q3 by miles but for me it’s a problem. In the end he tried to be the first, but he started the lap behind most of us. So I didn’t understand what it was all about.”
