‘Lando got very unlucky with that VSC’ admits P2 Verstappen

Well Max, taking it back to the start, it looked pretty dicey out there with Lewis. Talk us through that from your side and then just how it all unfolded as the race went on. It's just a bit the nature of the track, you know, when you have that track layout with so much tarmac people of course risk, you know, to go for a move and I saw what happened. I saw Lewis clip the kerb so he was going to run wide and I think if I would have stayed on the track you touch and there's a big risk of damage and I decided then of course to drive next to the track and then of course the team told me to give the position back which I did and after that just tried to do my race. I think it was quite clear that Lando and Kimi were a lot faster but yeah unfortunately Lando got very unlucky with that VSC so he dropped behind us. Then Kimi basically got stuck for a long time behind Charles who hadn't pitted yet and once everyone was a little bit clear, yeah it was again the same thing where Kimi was a bit faster than me, Lando was faster than all of us but you can't pass around here so I could keep him quite easily behind me. Considering where you started the weekend, we spoke about it on Friday, pretty happy to take P2 away from this weekend? The whole weekend has been quite steady, I mean I didn't have any big problems, the car is the car and I think for us to be second is a very good result.