Ted Kravitz rubbishes Charles Leclerc claim amid complaints about F1 rival Max Verstappen
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc last Saturday – but he received a five-second penalty from the race stewards Ted Kravitz believes Max Verstappen’s penalty at the Las Vegas Grand Prix was harsh – despite Charles Leclerc’s complaints.
Verstappen was handed a five-second penalty for forcing Leclerc to go wide off the track on the first corner. Leclerc moaned about Verstappen’s behaviour, and the stewards responded by forcing the world champion to spend some additional time in the pit lane.Despite the penalty, Verstappen still won his 18th race of the season. Although Verstappen refused to complain about his punishment after the Las Vegas GP, Sky Sports pundit Kravitz believes the incident involving the two drivers was simply “hard racing”. “If we go to how Max Verstappen did it, well, it began with a very stout defence against Charles Leclerc on lap one,” said Kravitz Ted Kravitz rubbishes Charles Leclerc claim amid complaints about F1 rival Max Verstappen
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc last Saturday – but he received a five-second penalty from the race stewards
Ted Kravitz has offered his opinion on Max Verstappen’s penalty at the Las Vegas Grand Prix
Ted Kravitz has offered his opinion on Max Verstappen’s penalty at the Las Vegas Grand Prix
Ted Kravitz believes Max Verstappen’s penalty at the Las Vegas Grand Prix was harsh – despite Charles Leclerc’s complaints.
Verstappen was handed a five-second penalty for forcing Leclerc to go wide off the track on the first corner. Leclerc moaned about Verstappen’s behaviour, and the stewards responded by forcing the world champion to spend some additional time in the pit lane.
Despite the penalty, Verstappen still won his 18th race of the season. Although Verstappen refused to complain about his punishment after the Las Vegas GP, Sky Sports pundit Kravitz believes the incident involving the two drivers was simply “hard racing”.
“If we go to how Max Verstappen did it, well, it began with a very stout defence against Charles Leclerc on lap one,” said Kravitz in Ted’s Notebook.
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“Now you can look at this two ways. The stewards decided to look at it in a way that merited a five-second penalty for forcing another driver off the track. I don’t know, I’ve kind of seen that before. I sort of felt that that was sort of hard racing.
“You go down, you’ve got somebody on the outside, and then you’re kind of walking him gently to the outside, compromising him while then you cut in and they go off. Is that not allowed anymore? I mean, yes, it was firm. It did cause another driver to go off.”
Leclerc demanded the stewards to analyse Verstappen’s manoeuvre immediately after going off the track and insisted it would be a “joke” if he kept his position. Verstappen told reporters after the race: “I didn’t mean to push Charles off the track, but I couldn’t slow down. Looking back, the penalty was probably the right call.”
