The introduction of Pirelli’s new 18-inch tyres last ye💞ar seemed to bring an understee🀅r characteristic that Verstappen isn’t a fan of.

Combined with Red Bull’s 202🍬2 car being overweight, Verstappen struggled to extract the most from the RB18, particularly in qualifying.

Pirelli have already confirmed that they༺ have made changes to their front tyres for 2023 in a bid to reduce understeer.

Verstappen notoriously likes a car ‘on the nose’, with a pointer front-e♎nd meaning the rear is more 🔯unstable.

It’s a preference that makes him incredibly fast, and something most of his teammates - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly - have struggled with.

Speaking at the launch of Red Bull’♉s 2023 F1 car - the RB19 - Verstappen believes the new tyres from Pirelli are “a little improvement”.

“Yeah, the big issue last year was not specifically the tyres, it was just the weight of the car,” he said. “It was very massively over and that creates a lazy behaviour on the front. Basically, once 🐭we started to get rid of 🌸that weight, the car became more agile.

“A🍨nd that's how the car is gonna go quick, because I've never sat in a car with understeer which is fast in my life in any category.

“With the new tyres from Pirelli, I do think it's a litt♒le improvement. Of course, we only tested it fully in Abu Dhabi and we have to see it on every single track as well to see if it works everywhere.

“Because every tarmac and track condition, especially the weat♔her, it influences a lot. But I'm confident that everything will be heading into the right direction.”

As Pirelli get ready for the new season, a numbeไr of teams have been testing for the Italian company.

Mer♋cedes were in action last week at the Circuit Paul Ricard across two days of testing.

AlphaTauri took oveඣr on Friday and Saturday, testing Pirelli’s wet weather tyres.

This week, Mercedes and Aston Martꦫin were at Jerez testing fo💙r Pirelli again.