Damon Hill: What Max is doing is not racing

      In the podcast High Performance 1996 World Champion Damon Hill once again criticized Max Verstappen's actions on the track…

      Damon Hill: "If, in a fight with someone, you just bump into them inside the turn to prevent them from overtaking, even if the rules aren't clear enough to say that you can't do that, then for me it's not racing. Other racers don't do that.

      Pushing your rivals off the track so that they can't overtake you is not a race. It's a car ride in the park, whatever it's called. We want to see skill and bravery. We want to see overtaking with precise, subtle action, not a side kick. We want to see you hitting your opponent with a rapier, not an axe, and we want to see a clean and beautiful fight.

      Universal connivance must not be allowed. Someone should say, "We want to see racing, but it shouldn't go beyond certain limits." Every sport has rules.

      At the same time, I consider Max to be one of the best in history. In terms of efficiency, maturity and speed, he is phenomenal, and there are very few phenomenal riders."