Instead, Verstappen dropped from fifth to tenth, costing him nine points in the F1 world championship, received three penalty points on his FIA superlicence and will live to fight another day. “It seems completely unnecessary.”Verstappen’s response: “I’ll bring some tissues next time.”This is not the first time the red mist has descended on the four-time F1 world champion. His accruing of 11 penalty points in the past 12 months is evidence of that. A necessary evil, Verstappen’s self-destructiveness goes hand-in-hand with his generational genius. Given he was arguably fortunate to escape penalty points in Saudi Arabia and Miami earlier this year, Verstappen is lucky to have not accumulated a race-ban-worthy 12 penalty points already.
