“Wow, thankyou Mercedes!” Astonished reaction in cooldown room
Race winner Max Verstappen and McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were exhausted after the grand prix when they saw a replay of the headline clash between the Mercedes drivers.
Hamilton took the blame for the incident which caused him to retire early.
Norris said: “George couldn’t do anything.”
Piastri asked: “Who caused it, at the start?”
Verstappen replied: “Lewis turned in too much.”
Norris said: “George couldn’t have done anything else.”
Piastri reacted: “What? Was it Lewis and George that crashed?”
Norris: “Yeah.”
Piastri: “Ha! Wow. Thank you, Mercedes.”
Norris: “Yeah, it made our lives a lot easier, huh? George was quite quick.”
Verstappen: “You know what they call that? The law of the jungle.”
A tired Verstappen joked that he was too weary to carry away the winner’s trophy.
He teased Norris: “Can you take it?”
Norris: “The trophy? I’ll break it, if you want!”
