Ah, another pure speculation with no confirmation from the FIA itself. It's just what they wrote about what Brundle think happened which he doesn't have proof of. 🤷🏻♂️ But somehow some weirdo wanted to expand that into fitting what he invented.
Meanwhile, on the same website, here is one article about Max speaking out on the issue.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/max-verstappen-lewis-hamilton-disqualification-us-gp
“Of course, I don’t think anyone does that on purpose, but it’s just even more because of this Sprint format where you only have one practice session where you try to nail everything,” Verstappen told the media in Mexico City.
“Once you are in the wrong, there’s nothing you can do. The only thing you can do is bump up the tyre pressures, but then you’re driving around on balloon tyres.
“Of course, it’s not what we want to see. We know that dropping the car gives you performance.
“But it’s just because of this whole format that you put yourself in this position because I don’t think anyone over a normal weekend would run like that.
“So I think we should just get rid of the Sprint weekend and then everyone can just set up their cars normally. It wouldn’t have happened if we’d had a normal race weekend.
“These things only happen when you have a Sprint weekend where everything is so rushed in between FP1 and qualifying and you think ‘We might be okay’ (in terms of set-up).
“From our side, I think we went a bit too conservative, but, of course, that’s still better than the other way.”
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