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After crashing out of Q3 at the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen sits alone in an almost-empty Red Bull garage staring at a replay he keeps asking someone to turn off. Charles Leclerc arrives with two coffees and the thin excuse that he was just checking.
Neither of them entirely believes that.
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Twenty laps. Less than a second between them. One move into Turn One that Race Control would very much like explained.
Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc are left waiting outside the stewards' room with no engineers, no cameras, and forty uninterrupted minutes to kill.
The conversation starts with telemetry.
It doesn't stay there.or; Max and Charles accidentally have the longest conversation they've had in twenty years because the FIA makes them wait.