GEORGE RUSSELL has “no intention” of burying the hatchet with Max Verstappen following their explosive row final season.

The pair went to warfare in final 12 months’s finale in Abu Dhabi, with the British 27-year-old claiming Verstappen threatened to place his “f***ing head within the wall” by intentionally crashing into him on the Qatar Grand Prix.

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4-time world champ Verstappen was branded a “bully” by Russell — with the Dutchman hitting again by labelling the Brit a “backstabber” and “loser” after he received the race, along with his Mercedes rival trailing in fourth.

Russell — talking at Tuesday evening’s  F1 75 occasion to rejoice the game’s seventy fifth anniversary at London’s O2 Area — mentioned he and the Pink Bull driver “hadn’t spoken” over the winter.

He added: “I’ve bought no intentions to, to be sincere.

“That occurred final 12 months. I wish to give attention to myself.

“Issues bought out of line final 12 months. We’re not going to return to being greatest mates, that’s for certain. I’ve no issues about him or his driving. 

“I made it fairly clear I’m not going to take it.

“However now it’s 2025 and I’m targeted on the job and the job is to win.

“So I’m not going to alter my strategy, combating him or combating another drivers. The aim is identical.”

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And Verstappen admitted he’ll put the difficulty to at least one facet. He mentioned: “I’ve no intention to proceed any beef in February.”

In the meantime, the Dutchman laid into the FIA for his or her new excessive swearing guidelines for the upcoming marketing campaign, urging them to give attention to extra vital points.

Fines will vary from  £34,000 to £152k, whereas Championship factors may be docked and race bans  handed out for repeat offenders.

In Singapore final 12 months,  Verstappen was ordered by FIA stewards to finish neighborhood work after dropping the F-bomb to explain his automotive.

The 27-year-old mentioned: “In the event you have a look at everybody’s response to it, that claims sufficient.

“Within the warmth of the second once you get interviewed in your automotive, typically issues slip out.

“We grew up taking part in sports activities, it occurs, you employ a swear phrase.

“We shouldn’t take it so critically. I’m additionally not going to inform them how one can behave in life.

“You’ll want to use a little bit of widespread sense and, moreover that, I favor we truly give attention to different subjects — to attempt to enhance security, attempt to enhance the general efficiency of System One vehicles — as a substitute of really having to give attention to all these form of issues.”

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In the meantime, British McLaren driver Lando Norris says his workforce have “no excuses” if they don’t seem to be  competing on the entrance of the grid proper from the off this season.

McLaren received their first constructors’ championship since 1998 final 12 months however Norris was runner-up to  Verstappen, 63 factors adrift within the drivers’ standings.

Pink Bull had dominated the primary 5 races which in the end  left Norris with a mountain to climb.

With the countdown to the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on March 16 underway, he mentioned: “After final 12 months  we have now no excuses, I suppose.

“Previously we’ve had our justifiable share however sincere and true excuses.
“This 12 months we  don’t  have any, we have now nothing to cover behind.

“We proved final 12 months we have now the whole lot we’d like and the whole lot  it takes to battle on the prime and be  the most effective.”