Touching on the decision, the Red Bull driver said: “I have my opinion but I don’t need to say it here, I’ll let the stewards do their thing. For us again it was a race that we learned a lot and we’ll just analyse that.
HIGHLIGHTS: Leclerc takes United States GP win as Ferrari seal glorious one-two finish ahead of Verstappen
“It was quite a difficult race. I never really had the pace to attack so a bit different compared to yesterday. Just understeering a lot, struggling on the braking, so that made also the defending quite difficult because every time if someone wanted to go for a move, I couldn’t really brake that late.
“It was a tough battle – I tried everything I could, of course, to keep him behind. At the end to be on the podium is still for us a great result.”
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