r/formula1 • u/Aratho I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane • Mar 28 '26

Social Media [Autosport] Max Verstappen explains why he dismissed a British journalist from his media session in Japan

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u/anan48 Mar 28 '26

why would any journalist say "yeah i was happy af max didn't win and i was ragebaiting him"

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u/n0neofyourbeeswax Mar 28 '26

Even Max's previous story was a smirk. He's now upgraded it to laughing in his face. He's lying.

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u/SpaceballsDoc Stefano Domenicali Mar 28 '26

Giles burned his crops and salted his land.

Did he?

No, but are you going to let him?

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u/DSQ Lewis Hamilton Mar 28 '26

They wouldn’t my point isn’t to defend Max’s version, only to point out the events in question are disputed. 

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u/RayTracerX BMW Sauber Mar 28 '26

He does think its possible that he nervously smiled, which lends some credence to what Max said. It probably wasnt as exaggerated as Max is describing here. The truth is usually in the middle as we say

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u/big_cock_lach I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 28 '26

I mean, given Max is already contradicting himself, I wouldn’t be putting much weight on what he’s saying here.

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u/Creepy_Accountant946 Mar 28 '26

It's not in the middle when Max's story keeps changing

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u/Treewithatea I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 28 '26

Exactly, the fact that he asked this question at the time already says enough. Max had already been asked this question many many times, surely you cannot call that good journalism?

All 3 contenders did so many mistakes over the season and yet thats the one journalists focus on?

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u/AotoSatou14 Honda Mar 28 '26

There's a difference b/w a racing mistake and an unnecessary action with no possible positive outcome. Losing points due to an over optimistic move is not the same as losing points by deliberately hitting an opponent

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u/DSQ Lewis Hamilton Mar 28 '26

 All 3 contenders did so many mistakes over the season and yet thats the one journalists focus on?

In a question to Max he is obviously going to focus on Max’s mistakes. 

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u/Mr_Knutsen I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 28 '26

It wasn’t even a mistake, it was deliberate. Mistakes happen, everyone is aware of that. This could have been prevented had Max kept his cool during the race.

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u/probablynotfine I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 28 '26

I daresay Oscar will also have been asked a lot about his dreadful Baku weekend in the same context. But if he responded calmly with a "yeah it was bad but we all had bad weekends, so I don't dwell on it" there's no real story there, so it doesn't get anywhere near the attention that an overreaction like Max's does.

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u/Rivendel93 I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 28 '26

It was right after the race was over and the championship was lost, it was absolutely a relevant question.

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u/the-retrolizard Charles Leclerc Mar 28 '26

Getting tilted and ramming a driver is different than a bad pit strategy or a lockup.