New Red Bull rules man’s ‘bit of a leap’ claim in Verstappen’s ‘towel gate’

Red Bull’s new rules man Steve Knowles claims the footwell argument in Max Verstappen’s ‘towel gate’ incident was probably a bit of a leap, but Red Bull still escaped with only a warning.

Verstappen had a bizarre incident in second practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix when the Red Bull driver found a towel in the cockpit of his RB21 and threw it out of the car.

Red Bull received only a warning for ‘towel gate’

Out on track in FP2, Verstappen pulled off the racing line at Turn 3, and driving slowly, took both hands from the steering wheel to fish for the cloth to toss it out of the car.

Although Verstappen was able to discard the towel, it remained on the track and the incident was referred immediately to the FIA race stewards, who investigated it as a potential example of an unsafe rel