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Former F1 Boss Joins Toto Wolff To Blame Max Verstappen for Cooking Up ‘Driveshaft’ Story To “Look Good”

Sabyasachi Biswas
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Former F1 Boss Joins Toto Wolff To Blame Max Verstappen for Cooking Up ‘Driveshaft’ Story To “Look Good”

Former F1 team principal Eddie Jordan has recently pointed out Max Verstappen for cooking up a ‘driveshaft’ story to look good in everyone’s eyes. This comes after the Dutchman suffered a driveshaft issue during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix qualification.

In a conversation with Formula For Success, Jordan stated that the defending champion “concocted” the mechanical issue in Jeddah. Verstappen wanted to start from the back and come back to win the race and “look good.”

The founder of Eddie Jordan Racing thinks Verstappen has done this to increase his hype and let the world know how good of a driver he is. When the grid is so closely knit together, he wanted to come back from P15 and take the victory; he feels.

The BBC pundit joined hands with Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, who thinks the same as him. According to reports, Wolff joked Red Bull might have done it purposely to get the win from the back.

Driveshaft was Verstappen’s decent excuse

As the Dutch pilot believed to have wanted to start from the back and finish up front, the driveshaft was his decent excuse, the former F1 team boss feels.

He said that one doesn’t need to be an Einstein to work it out. The Red Bull driver, in his opinion, found a nice excuse to do what is needed, which was the driveshaft.

The 25-year-old driver started the race from P15 and crossed the chequered flag in P2 behind his teammate Sergio Perez. Perez started the race from P1 after claiming Pole and kept his lead throughout the race.

Jordan supports Horner’s take on Perez against Verstappen

The BBC personality also supported Red Bull team principal Christian Horner’s call in Jeddah. The call-in Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was an important one, and it helped the team maintain stability, he thinks.

He said that he believes Horner has made everything clear to the two-time world champion. If the Mexican driver takes the pole and keeps his lead, the Dutchman will have no permission to pass him.

Furthermore, he also shared that he would have done the same if he was in charge. Admittedly, given both RB-19s are evenly equipped, it would have been almost impossible for the defending champion to close in on Perez with fewer laps in hand in Jeddah.

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Sabyasachi Biswas

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Sabyasachi Biswas is an F1 journalist at The SportsRush. With over one and a half decades of love for the sport and five years of experience in the field, he dreams to be a regular at the paddock when the lights go out. A Red Bull fan and F1 fan in general over the years, he enjoyed watching Felipe Massa, Sebastian Vettel, and Max Verstappen dominate the track. Apart from F1, he's also a big-time Madridista and Federer fanatic. He was a sub-junior level footballer, won inter-district quizzes and debate competitions back in school. A travel freak throughout, he tries different cuisines and learns new cultures whenever he's away from the keyboard.

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