Liuzzi: 'Mature' Verstappen took punishment seriously
Former F1 driver Vitantonio Liuzzi says Max Verstappen took his 'community service' at a recent Formula E race seriously.
Verstappen had been sentenced to the community service by the FIA after violently confronting Esteban Ocon after the Brazilian grand prix.
The Dutchman disagreed with the penalty, insisting he would not do anything that makes him "look silly".
The FIA duly sent him to Morocco to observe the stewards officiating at a Formula E race.
One of the stewards was Liuzzi, a former F1 driver.
"Verstappen's approach was very balanced," he told Italy's Autosprint.
"He immediately showed a lot of interest in the work of the stewards, and we involved him, asking him from time to time to consider the incidents of the race.
"On this occasion I saw him behaving even more maturely," Liuzzi added.
"When we talked about his formula one season, he did not insist on asserting his side of certain topics.
"He was with the stewards from seven in the morning until the end of the race, never taking a break and sometimes with several hours with nothing to do. But he was never distracted and always focused," he said.
Like Verstappen, Liuzzi was a product of Red Bull's F1 development programme. He raced for Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Force India and HRT until 2011.
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Call watching a race with the stewards a punishment- more like pleasure!!
He decides to assault a fellow professional because they did what he has done on numerous occasions on tbe grid - then the punishment is NOT to sweep debris from the race track during a race or to make tea for the stewards- NO!! They get him to have a cosy chat with the stewards and sit patiently waiting for something to do.
F1- get your punishments sorted out- like football(that Vanstappen loves to compare F1 drivers' behaviour with ) . He should have EITHER been on the bench for a few races OR had a huge fine or both!!!!
Vanstap is so precious he needs to grow up fast in 2019 and Horner needs to stop mothering him! Ricarrdo made a lucky escape from Red Bull.
Let's see what the second half of poor Vanstapen's punishment is?! Bet it's the F1 taking him out for dinner to have a chat about being violent!
Call this punishment! The F1 officials are clueless!