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Max Verstappen has admitted that his move on George Russell during the Spanish Grand Prix was 'not right and shouldn't have happened'. The Red Bull driver initially refused to apologise on Sunday for appearing to deliberately collide with the Mercedes car near the end of a dramatic race, but he took to social media on Monday to admit his error. The Dutchman was given a ten-second penalty for the incident, which dropped him from fourth to tenth in the race and allowed the two McLaren drivers, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, to pull away in the drivers' standings. Russell called the collision 'very deliberate' on Verstappen's part and the four-times world champion — who is renowned for his aggressive driving style and said he had 'no regrets' on Sunday — has now taken the unexpected step of apologising. 'We had an exciting strategy and good race in Barcelona, until the safety car came out,' he said. 'Our tyre choice to the end and some moves after the safety car restart fuelled my frustration, leading to a move that was not right and shouldn't have happened. 'I always give everything out there for the team and emotions can run high. You win some together, you lose some together. See you in Montreal.' After a safety car restart, Verstappen, left on hard tyres, lost third place to Charles Leclerc and then ran off track to avoid hitting Russell. Red Bull adjudged that their driver would likely receive a penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage, so told him to give the place back. Verstappen angrily responded with expletives on the radio, and then it appeared, in giving the place back, that he drove into Russell, causing contact. The race stewards said Verstappen was 'undoubtedly' the cause of the incident, giving him a ten-second time penalty, and three penalty points on his super licence. Verstappen eventually finished tenth, with Russell fourth, as Piastri won his fifth race of the season for McLaren. 'It felt very deliberate, to be honest,' Russell said. 'It's something that I've seen numerous times in sim racing and in go-karting. Never have I seen it in a Formula 1 race. So that was something new. 'It's a bit of a shame because Max is clearly one of the best drivers in the world. But manoeuvres like that are just totally unnecessary and sort of let him down. 'It's a shame for all the young kids looking up, aspiring to be Formula 1 drivers. So as I said, I don't know what he was thinking. In the end, I'm not going to lose sleep over it because I ultimately benefited from those antics.' The penalty points leave Verstappen with 11 over the past year, on the verge of a race ban if he reaches 12 — he must complete the Canadian and Austrian Grands Prix without further incident before the first of those points expire. The Dutchman said, 'Does it matter?' on Sunday when he was asked if the move was intentional, and said he would 'bring some tissues next time' when told that Russell felt he had shown a bad example to youngsters. Enraged by his error, Verstappen then appeared to deliberately make contact with Russell after his Red Bull engineer had told him to let the Englishman past SKY SPORTS Nico Rosberg, the former world champion turned Sky pundit, said Verstappen should have been disqualified for the collision. 'It looked like a very intentional retaliation. Wait for the opponent, go ramming into him, just like you felt the other guy rammed into you at turn one. 'That's something which is extremely unacceptable and I think the rules would be a black flag, yes. If you wait for your opponent to bang into him, that's a black flag.' Russell added: 'If it was truly deliberate, then absolutely [he should have been disqualified]. Because you cannot deliberately crash into another driver. We're putting our lives on the line. We're fortunate the cars are as safe as they are these days, but we shouldn't take it for granted. It's down to the stewards to determine if it's deliberate or not.' Norris likened the move to one he would perform on the game Mario Kart when watching the incident in the podium room. Toto Wolff, Russell's team principal at Mercedes, who has shown interest in signing the four-times world champion, said he could not determine Verstappen's intentions. 'We were under the impression in the race that he had a problem with the car, and that's why he was so slow getting out of [turn] four,' Wolff said. 'I mean, if it was road rage, which I can't imagine, because it was too obvious, that is not good. 'I don't know what he aimed for. Did he want to let George past, and immediately re-pass? Put George the car ahead and then, like the old DRS games, letting him past at the right way. Or… for me, it's just incomprehensible. But, again, I don't know exactly what the motivations were, and I don't want to judge on it and say this was road rage etc. It wasn't nice.' Christian Horner, Verstappen's team principal, said that he had not spoken to his driver but that it was clear he had been increasingly 'frustrated' in the closing laps. To compound Red Bull's misery, the stewards' written response to the first incident with Russell judged that it was in fact the Mercedes driver's actions that caused Verstappen to leave the track, so he would not have been punished and did not need to give the place back. It is not the first time Verstappen has caused high-profile collisions. His battles with Lewis Hamilton in the 2021 title race often overstepped the mark, while he was also penalised for some moves against Norris in the second half of last season. 'There's a pattern that the great ones, whether it's in motor racing or in other sports, you just need to have the world against you, and then perform at the highest possible levels,' Wolff added. 'That's why sometimes these greats don't recognise that actually the world is not against you, you have made a mistake, or you have screwed up… we haven't seen any of these moments with Max for many years now. The year 2021, that happened, and I don't know where it comes from.'
