Max Verstappen has been told that he must behave in an exemplary way for the next two Grand Prix. Especially during the Grand Prix of Canada, the four -time world champion must ensure that he does not rise against a punishment, because that would mean that he must remain aside in Austria due to a suspension.

Due to the incident with George Russell during the final phase of the Spain Grand Prix, Verstappen has now collected eleven penalty points in the past twelve months. That means that if Max receives one more penalty point before 30 June – if the first two points will be canceled – he will be suspended a race.

If that penalty point is given in Canada, he will have to be absent during the home race of Red Bull Racing. In Austria, the team from Milton Keynes celebrates their own race every year, which tens of thousands of Dutch people come. Verstappen has therefore been told from Red Bull that he must behave in an exemplary way, so he has been banned from an aggressive action as in Spain.

“Now he is not allowed to do anything wrong in the next two racing weekends, and of course he will be told that he should not make hasty decisions,”Helmut Marko writes down in his columnSpeedweek. “It would be a disaster if he couldn’t start in Austria. But we don’t expect that that will happen, because it is not that Max is doing something wrong in every race. The first penalty points will be deleted after Austria.”

Grand Prix Austria sabotaged?

However, it is of course not excluded that Verstappen runs into a suspension. Something small has to happen and he receives a penalty point with which it is already done for the Dutchman. But that is not how Juan Pablo Montoya thinks. The Colombian announced this week that he even expected the FIA ​​to save him in Canada if he does go over, because she wants to have him on the grid in Austria at all costs.

Not only because Verstappen provides a spectacle always and everywhere, but also because there are huge amounts of Dutch fans in Spielberg. And if Max does not participate, they can sometimes cause problems, the former F1 driver thinks.

“It is at all the question of whether Verstappen should actually skip a race if he gets a twelfth penalty point. Suppose they suspend him for the Grand Prix of Austria. Ninety percent of fans are Dutch there. Nobody will go to that race.”

“So what is it going to be and how will the audience react. Maybe they will sabotage the race. It would not surprise me if they adjust the rules before something can happen. They are obliged to punish him, although that headache will make me not want anyone. Really, they will pray in the hope that Max will do nothing wrong”, aldus Montoya.