Verstappen to continue giving minimal answers

Max Verstappen says helium volition proceed his stance of giving minimal answers successful authoritative Formula 1 quality conferences astatine this weekend’s US Grand Prix.

The Red Bull operator instigated his argumentation astatine the past contention successful Singapore aft helium was punished by governing assemblage the FIA for swearing successful a quality conference.

Verstappen said connected media time successful Austin, Texas: "I haven’t heard thing (from the FIA), truthful for maine it doesn’t alteration anything.

"I similar of people to speech less, truthful it’s good anyhow for me."

In Singapore, Verstappen constricted his answers arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable successful the authoritative FIA quality conferences to guarantee helium complied with the request to respond.

He told reporters determination that helium was blessed to reply questions much extensively extracurricular the property league room, and did truthful aft some qualifying and the race.

On Thursday, speaking portion surrounded by reporters astatine a array extracurricular the Red Bull hospitality, helium indicated that helium would proceed with this approach.

Asked whether helium inactive did not privation to talk successful the FIA property conferences, helium said: "I volition speak."

But erstwhile asked however the media would get "proper" answers from him, helium said: "This array works well."

The Dutchman described the quality arsenic "silly".

And erstwhile asked whether helium would speech to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem astir the issue, Verstappen said: "I americium ever unfastened for a chat. But from my broadside it is not that I americium the 1 who has to scope out. I conscionable unrecorded my life. I conscionable continue, thing changes.

"This peculiar scenario, yes, it's precise unnecessary. Of people I cognize you can't mostly curse but it's much astir erstwhile you insult someone.

"Then you perceive comments, like: 'Yeah but you don’t privation kids seeing that.' But erstwhile I was 5 years old, I ne'er watched a property league successful my beingness anyway. And astatine schoolhouse you perceive mode worse things than that. Because you turn up with kids and you’re a spot of a rebel, truthful you ever accidental atrocious stuff. That’s conscionable however beingness is.

"They privation you to acceptable an example. Yeah, sure. I don't deliberation they should marque specified a large woody astir it."

Mercedes operator Lewis Hamilton said the quality successful Singapore was "not a bully look".

And Hamilton's team-mate George Russell, who is simply a manager of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, said the F1 drivers were apt to marque a corporate connection connected the contented adjacent week.

"Between the drivers a batch person spoken regarding swearing," Russell said.

"It does look a small spot silly that it has travel to this. We person yet to talk to the FIA but we anticipation to bash truthful (at the adjacent race) successful Mexico. But collectively we’re each connected the aforesaid page.

"Next week we volition astir apt formally enactment thing towards you guys to work from the drivers arsenic a agreed whole.

"We don’t privation to beryllium taking distant the vigor of the infinitesimal emotions that drivers amusement during a race. It is down to possibly the broadcaster to take whether they privation to broadcast that.

"For the drivers, it is precise challenging erstwhile you person a microphone, you’re talking with your team, you’re successful the mediate of battle.

"But if it’s an situation similar this possibly we person a work to beryllium conscious of our words. Next week we person a missive oregon thing to stock with everyone."