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Max Verstappen has been reflecting on his latest victory and his first-lap battle with Lewis Hamilton in the media pen in the last few moments.

“Of course, my lap one wasn’t amazing but I know that we have a quick car so there is no need to be aggressive and risk damage on the car,” he told Sky Sports F1.

“The others realised their chance is the other way around so that is why they were aggressive which is fair enough. I would probably do the same if it was the other way around.

“I think with these new rules that are set out that if you are racing from the outside, if you are ahead at the apex, you need to be given space at the exit which I thought I wasn’t because I was literally avoiding being crashed into.

“I will raise it but I also don’t want to make it a big thing, but when the rules were written like that I thought they would be respected.”