Budapest, Hungary - Max Verstappen has defended his tactics used to hold off attacks from Kimi Raikkonen after their battle for fifth in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.
The 18-year-old Red Bull driver said he had only moved once and that he felt “everything was fair” in a scrap that saw Raikkonen's Ferrari clip the rear of his car in one move.
“You heard Kimi talking on the radio? Oh, that's good,” said Verstappen, joking about the famously taciturn Finn's reluctance to speak.
“Really, I have no issues. It was all fair. I could see him coming and he was very optimistic to dive down the inside.
“I turned to the inside so he had to brake. He locked up and he hit the rear of my car. That happens sometimes.”
Raikkonen lost parts of his front wing in their collision at Turn 2.
“He moved right and then back to left, when I was going there and he took the front wing off,” fumed the Finn, on team radio.
“If he's not stopping moving then we'll hit each other because I moved first, so he moved after that, once I have decided to go outside and he turns again - and that wasn't fair.”
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