Red Bull's senior advisor has opened up about Max Verstappen's highly controversial incident with George Russell that brought him one step closer to a race ban.

Max Verstappen’s Instagram apology on Monday for his collision with George Russell in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix, admitting the move was “not right” and “shouldn’t have happened”, was not before time.

Max Verstappen was involved in an extraordinary crash with George Russell late in the Spanish Grand Prix, only publicly admitting the following day that he had been in the wrong