He instructed reporters there that he was glad to reply questions extra extensively outdoors the press convention room, and did so after each qualifying and the race.
On Thursday, talking whereas surrounded by reporters at a desk outdoors the Purple Bull hospitality, he indicated that he would proceed with this strategy.
Requested whether or not he nonetheless didn’t need to communicate within the FIA press conferences, he mentioned: “I’ll communicate.”
However when requested how the media would get “correct” solutions from him, he mentioned: “This desk works effectively.”
The Dutchman described the dispute as “foolish”.
And when requested whether or not he would discuss to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem concerning the difficulty, Verstappen mentioned: “I’m at all times open for a chat. However from my aspect it’s not that I’m the one who has to succeed in out. I simply stay my life. I simply proceed, nothing modifications.
“This specific situation, sure, it’s extremely pointless. After all I do know you may’t usually swear but it surely’s extra about whenever you insult somebody.
“Then you definitely hear feedback, like: ‘Yeah however you don’t need youngsters seeing that.’ However after I was 5 years outdated, I by no means watched a press convention in my life anyway. And in school you hear manner worse issues than that. Since you develop up with youngsters and also you’re a little bit of a insurgent, so that you at all times say unhealthy stuff. That’s simply how life is.
“They need you to set an instance. Yeah, positive. I do not assume they need to make such an enormous deal about it.”
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton mentioned the dispute in Singapore was “not a superb look”.
And Hamilton’s team-mate George Russell, who’s a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Affiliation, mentioned the F1 drivers had been prone to make a collective assertion on the difficulty subsequent week.
“Between the drivers lots have spoken relating to swearing,” Russell mentioned.
“It does appear somewhat bit foolish that it has come to this. We now have but to talk to the FIA however we hope to take action (on the subsequent race) in Mexico. However collectively we’re all on the identical web page.
“Subsequent week we are going to most likely formally put one thing in the direction of you guys to learn from the drivers as a united entire.
“We don’t need to be taking away the warmth of the second feelings that drivers present throughout a race. It’s right down to perhaps the broadcaster to decide on whether or not they need to broadcast that.
“For the drivers, it is vitally difficult when you might have a microphone, you’re speaking together with your crew, you’re in the course of battle.
“But when it’s an surroundings like this perhaps we’ve got an obligation to take heed to our phrases. Subsequent week we’ve got a letter or one thing to share with everybody.”