モーター racing-'Stay on it,' Verstappen tells Leclerc after Baku heartbreak
By Abhishek Takle
BAKU, June 12 (Reuters) - Max Verstappen spared no sympathy for Charles Leclerc after the Dutchman took advantage of a race-ending engine 失敗 for his Ferrari 決まり文句／製法 One 競争相手 to 巡航する to an unchallenged 勝利，勝つ in Azerbaijan on Sunday.
"I would say shit happens, that's racing, you know?" Verstappen, who experienced the heartbreak of 衝突，墜落ing out of the lead in Baku last year, told reporters.
"It happened to me, it happened to many people in the past and unfortunately it's happening to Charles.
"If I would be in the same 状況／情勢, I would also be disappointed, I think that's very normal, but it's about how you come out of it."
Verstappen's 勝利，勝つ on Sunday, his fifth from eight races this season, 許すd him to open up a 命令（する）ing lead in the 全体にわたる standings.
He is now 21 points ahead of Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez, who 完全にするd a one-two behind Verstappen on Sunday, with Leclerc 34 points 流浪して having dropped to third.
The 24-year-old, who went into the 週末 nine points behind Verstappen, has now failed to 変える 最高の，を越す 位置／汚点／見つけ出す into victory in the last four races in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 for 推論する／理由s 範囲ing from a 欠如（する） of reliability to 戦略の missteps.
Sunday's 失敗 was the second time in three races that Leclerc had retired from the lead.
It （機の）カム すぐに after team mate Carlos Sainz had also stopped with a hydraulic 失敗, resulting in a 二塁打 退職 for Ferrari.
Verstappen has himself been sidelined twice by reliability woes this year and 追跡するd Leclerc by 46 points after the 開始 three races of the season.
"You learn from it, you don't like it, you are angry, but you turn it around," he said.
"You always have to stay on it because something else might happen and you have to 妨げる these 問題／発行するs from happening." (報告（する）／憶測ing by Abhishek Takle; editing by Christian Radnedge)
