The Question: Do you want to tell us a little bit more about what happened between yourself and Carlos Sainz and maybe what has happened since the last grand prix to talk about things within the team?
What Max said:
Well I can tell you nothing has changed in our relationship or something. I was trying to overtake Checo, I was very close and I was looking in my mirrors as well. It didn’t feel for me that it was close enough to give it a go, so I decided to stay there and at the end we had a conversation about it in the team and everything has been cleared and we are ready to go again here in Japan.
What he might have meant to say:
What I can tell you is that all the time when the team was asking me to let Carlos past all I could hear in my head was my father’s voice – you know, a bit like in Star Wars when Luke Skywalker hears Obi-Wan telling him to “trust the force”, except in this case Jos was in my head saying: "If you let the Spaniard through I’ll tear your balls off”. It’s not the sort of message you can ignore really. Have you met my dad?
