Christian Horner Revealed How ‘Cramp’ Helped Max Verstappen to Defeat Lewis Hamilton in 2021 Abu Dhabi GP: “He Told Us After the Race”

The incredible saga of the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP happened last year. However, is still a hot topic, and it only gets better with more information being added to the mix. This time we are looking back at an instance narrated by Red Bull’s team principal Christian Horner about Max Verstappen.

We are all aware of the results of the Abu Dhabi GP. F1 drivers usually communicate any and every major annoyance on the team radio to get the best results. However, the incident Horner narrated about Verstappen withholding information could’ve changed the result altogether.

“What he didn’t tell us, he told us after the race,” said Horner said in an interview with Cambridge Union. “While they were going around behind the safety car, because the way the drivers sit in the car, their feet are 6 inches higher than their backside. Sometimes the blood drains out of their legs if they’re not keeping busy and you can get a really bad cramp.”

After the backstory, Horner revealed the information Verstappen withheld. “He got a massively bad cramp in his left leg. He said ‘I couldn’t feel my braking foot. So he said, ‘I didn’t really mean to overtake Lewis there (on that turn), but I just went for the gap and hoped I could feel the brakes’.”

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The overtake that won Verstappen his first-ever world championship was not intentional. This incident narrated by Christian Horner makes the incidents in Abu Dhabi much more surreal.

However, just when we thought we were past the 2021 season, the budget cap revelation is dividing the fans again.

Max Verstappen got booed by fans following the budget cap revelation

The ill-timed budget cap revelation is playing its role among the fans. This is exactly what inspired a section of the fans at the US Grand Prix to chant “cheater” when Verstappen and his partner Sergio Perez took the stage. Although the fans’ voices did not reach the stage, these actions are completely unacceptable according to Toto Wolff.

The Mercedes boss revealed his thoughts on the chanting fans. He said, “That is unacceptable.”

“The booing, whether it’s on the podium or on the fan stage, nobody wants to see that.”

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Say what you will. The incidents of Abu Dhabi and the entire season were so emotionally charged that sour feelings still linger among some fans.