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Eddie Jordan has defended Max Verstappen in his clash with Lando Norris in Austria, after all road rules say the “person in the front has the right of way”.
Verstappen and Norris collided at the Austrian Grand Prix when, on lap 64, Norris tried to pass Verstappen around the outside through the braking zone of Turn 3.
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris crashed on lap 64 in Austria
Verstappen defended his lead by moving to the left to block Norris, but that ultimately resulted in contact between the protagonists who both suffered rear-wheel punctures.
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Verstappen was ruled to have been “predominantly” to blame and was hit with a 10-second time penalty by the stewards, although that had no barring on his fifth-placed finish.
As for Norris, the McLaren driver retired his car and walked away from the Grand Prix trailing Verstappen by 81 points in the Drivers’ Championship.
The stewards weren’t the only ones to blame Verstappen with McLaren going as far as to tweet analysis from ‘expert pundit Anthony Davidson’ to support their belief Verstappen was wholly in the wrong.
