Max Verstappen says Red Bull “must do better” and sees no reason to apologise for a series of bad-tempered radio messages during the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The world champion repeatedly criticised his team on the radio, often using swear words, during a race in which he finished fifth after a collision with Lewis Hamilton.

Verstappen said: “I don’t think we need to apologise. We just need to do better.

“I don’t understand why people think you can’t talk on the radio. This is a sport. If some people don’t like that, then stay home.”

When asked how he responded to criticism that he was too disrespectful to his team, he used a swear word to suggest that people should leave.

He was angry because in a race where he was not quick enough to challenge the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, who finished first and second, the team made strategic errors that he said put him behind Hamilton twice – and behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc on the second occasion.

His frustrations were further heightened when it emerged that Red Bull had made a major upgrade to their car in Hungary, but they were still not the fastest in the field.

“I said yesterday that some people might not be on the same wavelength,” he said. “It’s as bad as it is. I knew it was going to be a tough race and beating McLaren would be tough, but you have to at least get a P3 across the finish line and we couldn’t even do that.”

The result reduced his championship lead over Norris to 76 points and Red Bull’s lead over McLaren in the Constructors’ Championship to 51 points.

When they tried to overtake Hamilton in the closing stages of the race, the two collided.

Verstappen, who has been called before the stewards to review the incident, said the Mercedes driver caused the incident because he broke the rules by changing his line under braking.

Hamilton argued that he was simply entering the corner on his normal line. The stewards agreed and took no further action against either driver.

Asked if his frustrations with the race had spilled over and caused the incident, Verstappen said: “I don’t think so. I went for a move that was all the way on. But halfway through the braking zone I was already determined to make the move, he kept turning to the right and if I hadn’t turned while braking straight ahead I would have hit him.

“So at some point I naturally block because he keeps turning right.”

Verstappen was thrown over Hamilton’s front wheel, but he managed to continue and finished fifth in the race, again ending up behind Leclerc.

He was referring to the criticism he received after his collision with Norris at the Austrian Grand Prix two races ago, for which he was given a 10-second penalty.

“People have said a lot about what happened in Austria and that it wasn’t right. I moved under braking, blah, blah, blah,” Verstappen said, “but that’s on the first move and then you keep your steering wheel quite straight.

“And now I felt that it wasn’t on the first move, but after, under braking. You can’t do that when someone has committed on the inside.”

He blamed the team’s strategic mistakes for the result.

“We could still have had a P3 but the wrong strategy put me on the wrong foot and I had to constantly fight and overtake people,” he said.

“But the track is really hot and as soon as you get close to the cars the tyres overheat.

“Maybe the team didn’t realise what they did wrong or didn’t see that it was so serious, but in the car you have other feelings too.”