Max Verstappen has admitted he needed to “destroy” his room out of anger following a dreadful qualifying on the F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
The Dutchman certified twelfth final 12 months in Brazil however was demoted to seventeenth due to a penalty for exceeding his engine allowance with a brand new energy unit fitted in his Purple Bull.
With title rival Lando Norris claiming pole place, Verstappen was left fuming at how qualifying had panned out. The Purple Bull driver revealed that it was his father, Jos, who finally calmed him down.
“I used to be very upset with qualifying,” Verstappen stated on the Speaking Bull podcast.
“I needed to destroy my room, however then I walked into my room and my dad was sitting there.
When requested if his father had already destroyed the room for him, Verstappen replied: “No, he was the calm one. He was very calm.
“I used to be so indignant after which I see him so calm, that truly calmed me down.”
‘Quite a lot of unhappy faces’ in Purple Bull
Verstappen would go on to supply certainly one of his biggest victories to climb from seventeenth on the grid and win a chaotic race which happened in heavy rain. This moved him to the brink of a fourth world title, which he clinched on the subsequent spherical in Las Vegas.
“Once I assume again to the day, I might additionally really feel within the workplace as we have been making ready for the race, as a result of every thing occurred on the identical day, it was plenty of unhappy faces,” he defined.
“You’re beginning P17, your important rival is beginning first so it could possibly be an enormous factors swing at that time of the championship. So everybody was fairly nervous as nicely.
“However then it rained. It was a moist day. I jumped within the automobile. In fact I just like the circumstances, I just like the moist, however you by no means know what’s going to occur or can occur as a result of on the identical time you could be taken out otherwise you spin off the monitor your self as a result of it’s very troublesome.
“However as quickly because the race acquired underway, it was good. It was good. I loved it rather a lot. I felt good. Step-by-step, driving to the entrance.”
Verstappen admitted he felt “reduction” on the rostrum and knew he was on the right track to say the world championship, after Norris had a troublesome race and will solely end sixth.
“I knew as quickly as I received that race and the result basically, that that’s it,” he added.
