Max Verstappen says Purple Bull must utterly overhaul their automotive earlier than the subsequent spherical of the championship in Bahrain.
The championship chief may solely handle a sixth-place end in right now’s Italian Grand Prix, 37 seconds behind winner Charles Leclerc. One week earlier at Zandvoort he completed 22 seconds behind race winner Lando Norris.
The crew has struggled with its automotive in latest races. Verstappen was puzzled by the modifications in its stability throughout qualifying yesterday, the place he appeared aggressive in Q2 however slipped to seventh place on the grid.
“It’s actually unhealthy for the time being,” he instructed the official F1 web site after the race. “Earlier than Baku, we now have plenty of work to do to principally change the entire automotive.”
Moreover the automotive’s efficiency, Verstappen was additionally sad together with his crew’s technique in the course of the race. He was locked right into a two-stop technique early on as Purple Bull fitted a second set of laborious tyres at his first pit cease.
Verstappen was additionally pissed off by a gradual tyre change at his first pit cease, and punched his steering wheel as he rejoined the observe. He misplaced extra time with a lack of energy from his engine.
Talking afterwards Vertappen mentioned he “wasn’t actually pissed off all through the race, I used to be simply doing my very own race.” However he admitted “the tempo was not there.”
“We had a nasty pit cease. I feel that our technique was not on level right now, although in fact it wouldn’t have modified our place. I feel we may have carried out a greater race usually.
“It doesn’t assist which you can’t run full energy for a lot of the race with the engine, as a result of we had a problem. So all in all, a fairly unhealthy race.”
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