Max Verstappen: “Criticism of my driving style was all big bullsh*t!”

Max Verstappen says he never questioned his driving style this season, even when he came under fire earlier in the year for a string of mistakes and bad judgment calls. "Most of it was just very unfair, so of course at one point I get tired of it," Verstappen said. "I know what I can do, it was just not coming out at the time, so I was working very hard at home to make sure it did come out. And then in Canada, it did. "I think I just needed a break from the bad string of results. I didn’t change anything in the way I was preparing for the weekend because I kept believing in myself that it would turn around." Verstappen notes that Sebastian Vettel's recent string of errors haven't generated any calls for the German to change his approach. "You see even a four-time world champion can make mistakes like that," he added. "People saying I had to change my driving style, to me that was all big bullsh*t, to be honest. "They don’t tell Sebastian to really change his driving style, I’ve never seen the headlines like that. "At the end of the day driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds… mistakes are easily done."

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