BREAKING: Max Verstappen handed huge penalty immediately after Spanish GP for George Russell brawl

Max Verstappen was handed a dramatic penalty in the dying moments of the Spanish Grand Prix. It came after he appeared to ram into George Russell in the final few laps in anger amid a bad-tempered duel with the driver.

Verstappen was already in a bad mood after having his strategy ruined by a late safety car. Kimi Antonelli stopped in the gravel after a power unit failure, giving everyone the chance to pit for new tyres.

But while most of the leaders stopped for soft tyres, Verstappen only had a set of the harder, slower compound available. So he could kiss goodbye any chance he had of challenging the McLaren cars ahead and instead had to defend from behind.

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Charles Leclerc immediately moved past while George Russell also nearly managed it, but had to pull out when he tapped the wheel of the . That infuriated Verstappen whose mood was not helped by his race engineer advising him to give the place to the Mercedes.

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