Verstappen: They can all f@ck off

Nothing worked for Verstappen on Sunday afternoon in Budapest. His RB20 lacked the pace to take the fight to the McLarens despite having a comprehensive upgrade package.

And while Red Bull are usually sharp on strategy, their pitwall was under pressure in the Hungarian GP, and were left reacting to undercut attempts from Mercedes and then Ferrari.

As such, the race was an extended red mist moment for the Verstappen as he was vocal in his communication with race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase with some colorful language regarding the strategy he was given.

Speaking to the media after the race, including GrandPrix247, Verstappen said: "The wrong strategy calls put me on the backfoot where I constantly had to fight people, trying to overtake, and it didn't work today.

"The track is really hot and as soon as you get close to cars the tyres overheat and basically all of the advantage that you have with the tyres is not working anymore," he explained.

The triple Formula 1 Champion downplayed the intensity of his communication with Lambiase, saying: "I've had it before."

And when asked whether it was worse than normal, he responded: "I don't agree with that but I was just annoyed with today and maybe the team, at the time, didn't realise what they did wrong or maybe didn't see it was so severe but in the car you have different feelings.

"I don't know," Verstappen said when asked of he understood the rationale behind Red Bull's strategy. "I have to speak to the team about the why and the how. We didn't realise that following was so hard today."

Verstappen was clumsy in his driving, especially when he was trying to pass Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, a fight which ended in a clash that saw the #1 RB20 lifted in the air and dropping to fifth as its driver was unable to make progress anymore after damage.

Verstappen was quizzed whether his continuous rant over the radio was distracting him and whether he should've been focusing on driving, he said: "Of course I am annoyed.

"But I have been annoyed before, sometimes you press the radio to voice your opinion and that is what I did today. We hoped that maybe the second pitstop would be a better call, but it wasn't, but for me that is not distracting when I drive.

"Of course I am annoyed but you also then focus back on what you have to do and that is to control the car," he insisted.

The Dutchman added that all will be discussed with the team in the debriefs which will be "like always, same stuff" despite the tension after the race.

And when asked to respond to those criticizing his team suggesting he was disrespectful, Verstappen said: "They can all f@ck off."

Red Bull boss, Christian Horner was asked about the heated communication between Verstappen and Lambiase during the Hungarian GP, he said: "Max was frustrated, which you can understand.

"He has a very direct line of communication with his engineer. That's something they'll discuss between the two of them.

"That's something in for the debrief," he responded when asked whether he talked to his star driver about his language.

Horner clarified the "childish" comment Lambiase said to Verstappen during the race, insisting the driver was not the target of that.

He said: "GP [Lambiase] at that point actually wasn't referring to Max. He was referring to others on the radio complaining about penalties. Others obviously were asking for penalties, because obviously the stewards are listening to the radio as well.

"Look, they've been together for eight years and there's things that we could have done better in the race today, but it's something that we'll talk about as a team," Horner concluded.