Christian Horner believes a distinction in set-up between Crimson Bull’s two vehicles compromised Max Verstappen’s efficiency within the Dutch Grand Prix.
Verstappen completed 16 seconds forward of group mate Sergio Perez however 22 seconds behind race winner Lando Norris. Horner stated the group had been hopeful of contending for victory after Verstappen took the lead in the beginning, however stated the upper downforce degree on their lead automobile finally compromised him.
“Having received the lead, you immediately begin to suppose okay, and he managed to interrupt the DRS, however then it was very clear that immediately Lando, from lap 5, six onwards, began to return again fairly arduous,” Horner advised Viaplay. “And we simply didn’t have the tempo right this moment.
“I believe with hindsight, the gamble that we made with extra downforce maybe wasn’t the perfect route. Checo’s tempo, it regarded prefer it was simpler to him within the second half of the race.
“However congratulations to Lando and McLaren, they had been very fast right this moment. We’ve received work to do to get extra tempo.”
Verstappen was dissatisfied along with his automobile’s dealing with from the start of the occasion. “The entire weekend has been the identical,” he stated. “I had just about the identical steadiness from FP1 all the way in which to the race.
“The constraints are the identical. It’s simply very arduous to unravel in the intervening time.”
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He was the one driver within the discipline who took two new units of arduous compound tyres into the race. “It simply looks as if we’re too gradual, but additionally fairly unhealthy on deg in the intervening time,” he defined. “That’s a bit bizarre as a result of I believe the previous few years usually we’ve been fairly good on that.
“So one thing has been going fallacious recently with the automobile that we have to perceive and we have to, after all, rapidly attempt to enhance.”
Though he held the lead for the primary 17 laps, Verstappen stated it quickly turned clear he couldn’t include Norris.
“I used to be simply doing my very own race, taking care of the tyres, I attempted to do the perfect I might,” he stated. “However at one level nothing was turning or responding anymore.
“So then Lando received fairly shut. The primary time he was shut, however not shut sufficient. Then the following lap, there was nothing that I might do.
“So as soon as he handed, I simply targeted on doing my race, tried to convey it to the tip in second.”
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