Windsor snaps at the stewards: 'Ludicrous to say Verstappen did that'

After the ninth race of the 2025 season, the main discussion was about the incident between Verstappen and George Russell. However, before that collision, there was also a clash between Leclerc and Verstappen on the straight.

On the hard tyres, Verstappen had a big slide coming out of the final corner on the safety car restart, giving Leclerc the chance to overtake the Dutchman right at the restart down the start/finish straight.

However, during the overtake, Leclerc edged towards Verstappen, causing the two to touch at an extremely high speed. After the race, Leclerc emphasised that it was his intention to push Verstappen slightly back towards the outside.

Those words from the Monagasque driver only increased Windsor's disagreement with the stewards in Barcelona, believing it to be incomprehensible that they did not intervene with that incident.

‘’If Charles now says it was him (who collided with Verstappen, ed.), then even more shame on the FIA for not doing something about it," the Australian said on his YouTube channel.

The stewards, however, judged differently. After Leclerc and Verstappen had been to the stewards, they ruled that neither of the two drivers was primarily at fault for the incident because the Red Bull driver had also moved to the right during the incident.

"To say that Max moved over is ludicrous, because he was the one losing momentum, he was on the left side of the track, and he was going slower than Charles," the former F1 team and sponsorship manager said.

"I was astonished that it took the stewards so long to review that. That should have been the first thing that was reviewed, even before the George incident, because it was a high-speed incident and it was incredibly, potentially dangerous," concluded Windsor.