The reigning world champion received Sunday’s triple crimson flag race which led to weird vogue to increase his championship lead over Crimson Bull team-mate Sergio Perez.
Kevin Magnussen’s crash with 4 laps to go prompted the choice to sign the race and stage a two-lap dash to the end. Chaos on the restart led to a different suspension, earlier than the race lastly ended one lap behind the security automotive.
Verstappen described the conclusion in Melbourne as a “mess” and accused race management of wreaking havoc.
“I feel it is fairly clear, I simply did not perceive why we would have liked a crimson flag,” mentioned the Crimson Bull driver.
“I feel in the event you had a security automotive and simply had a traditional begin, we would not have had all these shunts after which you have got a traditional end.
“In order that they created the issues themselves on the finish of the day.”
Verstappen felt the incident might have been lined by a digital security automotive or security automotive and expects the matter to be addressed earlier than the following race in Baku.
“I feel it might have been executed with a digital security automotive or a security automotive at worst,” he mentioned. “However yeah, we’ll discuss that. I feel it left lots of riders confused, why we would have liked a crimson flag.”
Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, who took benefit of the crimson flag to complete third after seemingly being knocked out on the ultimate restart, admitted he was “shocked” by the choice.
“I feel the FIA has extra data than us. So if there’s a crimson flag, it have to be for a motive,” added the Spaniard.
“The FIA is the one one who has all of the playing cards on the desk, so in these sorts of conditions we belief them and we attempt to preserve them.”
Mercedes driver George Russell mentioned the primary crimson flag was “completely pointless” – though curiously he misplaced due to it.
“I do not actually know what occurs with sure choices,” mentioned the director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Affiliation (GPDA).
“We’re all attempting to work with the FIA to make issues higher, however it’s kind of of a problem.”
