News Details

Russell Suggests A Footballer Would’ve Reacted Differently To Bottas ‘Slap’

Williams driver George Russell has downplayed the aggression he displayed after he collided with the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas during Sunday’s 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. After the pair collided, Russell approached Bottas while he was still in the cockpit of his Mercedes and exchanged words with him, before slapping his helmet while the Finn stuck his middle finger up.  Follow us on Google News to never miss an F1 story! Russell, who is believed to be in contention for a 2022 Mercedes seat, later issued an apology on social media, and he has now said his “slap” was “nothing more than a brush.” “Slap is a very strong word,” Russell said. “It was nothing more than a...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Russell takes swipe: 'If it was anybody else he...

Halfway through the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, the race was halted due to...
4y ago from GPBlog.com

Schumacher Criticises Bottas For Lack Of Pace &...

Ex-F1 racer Ralf Schumacher has criticised Mercedes driver Valtteri...
4y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

VIDEO: How Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon collided in...

Article To news overview The video of the collision between Red Bull's...
4y ago from RacingNews365.com

Kravitz Criticises Russell & Bottas For...

George Russell and Valtteri Bottas should have shown more respect for...
4y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Motorsport Week's Top 10 MotoGP riders of 2025

The 2025 MotoGP season had it all. With 22 rounds and 44 races, the...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Race start times for 2026 IndyCar season announced

The NTT IndyCar Series has announced the race broadcast start times for...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Belated Merry Gabriel to you

Morning. Sorry for the lateness of today's blog, but I slept through two...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

Was Verbruggen's foul on Gyokeres worthy of a red card?

Arsenal picked up a big three points at home to Brighton on Saturday -...
33m ago from SkySports.com

Tom Jenkins’s best sport photographs of 2025

Guardian sport photographer selects his favourite images he has taken...
2h ago from TheGuardian.com

Comments

Hottest News

Oscar Piastri fires F1 title warning to Lando Norris

F1 star Oscar Piastri has delivered a warning to... Read More »
1h ago from GPFans.com

Max Verstappen reveals bizarre 2am habit

Four-time F1 world champion Max Verstappen has... Read More »
33m ago from GPFans.com

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.