Max Verstappen's immediate response to the Italian Grand Prix drama between McLaren team-mates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri has gone viral.
Norris, in second place behind race leader Verstappen, pitted on lap 47 for new soft tyres.
A normally-timed pit stop would have seen him comfortably emerge ahead of team-mate Piastri.
But McLaren were slow in tightening his left front tyre, and the Brit came out two seconds behind Piastri.
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The team subsequently told the Australian to let Norris through, telling him he could then race his team-mate until the end.
Verstappen was kept informed of developments over team radio from race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase - and gave a hilarious response.
"Haha, just because he had a slow stop?" Verstappen said.
Lambiase replied: "It's not our business, but I guess it keeps it fair between the drivers in terms of the championship."
Norris eventually comfortably finished ahead of Piastri, who did not have the tyres to challenge his team-mate.
Speaking post-race to F1TV's Davide Valsecchi, Piastri said: "It was a struggle through the first half of the race and when the tyres went away, it got better.
"We went so long that the soft seemed like a good tyre to put on. We were just staying out for a safety car, which didn't happen, but eventually Max got into our pit window so there wasn't much point staying out much longer.
"Yeah... the incident at the end, but it's okay.
"All in all, there's a lot of things to learn from this weekend. Happy going forwards, and we'll try and be strong next race."
Norris, meanwhile, said of the incident: "I don't know. I felt like I was there for quite a long time.
"Yeah, I guess every now and then we make mistakes as a team. And today was one of them.
"I did everything I could today, I couldn't do a lot more. We had a good race, and Max came out on top and deserved it."
Topics: Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, McLaren, Formula 1
Ryan Smart