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Verstappen: 'Idiot' remark not meant to hurt anyone

Max Verstappen insists he didn’t mean anything ‘bad’ when he referred to FIA steward Garry Connelly as an ‘idiot’ and ‘mongol’ after the United States Grand Prix. The Dutchman was furious in the wake of losing his podium finish at Austin after being ruled to have cut the track in a last-lap overtake of Kimi Raikkonen. He even went as far as suggesting that the situation was not being helped by race steward Connelly regularly punishing him. “It’s one idiot steward up there which always makes decisions against me,” Verstappen told Sky TV. Later on, in interviews with Dutch television, he referred to Connelly as a ‘mongol’. Those comments have caused some controversy,...
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