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Max Verstappen jokingly but fairly firmly told us his opening-lap incidents with Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Sergio Perez at the Austrian Grand Prix sprint needn’t be a story.
We weren’t so sure – partly because on this occasion the bigger story actually became how efficiently they ensured it didn’t become a real flashpoint.
In this clip from The Race F1 Podcast on our YouTube channel, our F1 writers debate both the incidents themselves and how Verstappen and Perez handled them. And why whatever the outcome, it really was a story.
