Verstappen's HUGE BACKLASH After Hamilton's RISKY MANEUVER At The Austrian GP! | F1 2026

You don't expect to go around the outside of a champion. Five years after their explosive two thousand and twenty one title war, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen reignited one of the fiercest rivalries in Formula One history at the Austrian Grand Prix, and Hamilton's blunt words afterwards proved that neither man has lost an ounce of their competitive fire. The two former title rivals went wheel to wheel for lap after lap at the Red Bull Ring, trading positions, squeezing each other to the very edge of the circuit, and at one point sending Verstappen bouncing across the gravel. Verstappen was furious, screaming over the radio that it was a clear penalty. The stewards disagreed and waved it away. And after the race, when Hamilton was told what Verstappen had said, the seven time world champion did not back down an inch. He delivered a line that has gone around the world. You don't drive around the outside of a champion. The old enemies are at it again, and the Formula One world absolutely loved every second of it. Let us go through exactly what happened in their battle, the controversy over the penalty, and the fiery comments that followed.