Max Verstappen admits Red Red Bull’s Singapore struggles "way worse than expected"
Red Bull have dominated thౠe 2023 season and won all 14 races so far but they were well off the pace at the end of Friday’s practice running in Singapore.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez and Verstappen ended up seventh and eighth in FP2, around seven-tenths adrift of Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz as both drivers complained about the 🧸balance of their respective RB19♛s.
Red Bull had been br🌟acing for a more difficul🔥t weekend in Singapore but reigning world champion Verstappen conceded the extent of the team’s struggles was “unexpected”.
“It was a little bit unexpected today,𒐪” Verstappen said.
“I was just struggling a lot with the balance of the 𒐪car. We tried quite a few things in FꦓP2, some worked, some didn’t.
“Never really got ✤the car together so there’s quite a few things to figure out tonight.”
T💧he Dut🥃chman added: “There’s just things that we don’t understand. That’s what we have to look into.”
Asked if he is still confident of challenging for pole in qualifying, Verstappen replied: “I will try to of course improve but that’s quitಌe a big gap.
“Ferrari is 🅰very fast I think we are just way worse than expected.”
Perez echoed Verstappen’s c📖omments, saying: “I think there is some interesting bits that we need to figure out overnight, hopefully.
“We’re struggling with the rear-end of the car, especially in FP2. So plenty of things to look at and hopefully we ca♐n come up with the best possible set-up, because we know that qualifying is very important.
“We did expect Ferrari to be ve🌸ry strong aroun🍨d here. We are just too far away. So hopefully tomorrow we are able to close the gap quite a bit more.
“But we do expect quite a bit of a challenge.”
Sky F1 pundit Karun Chandhok observed: 🌃"Neither Max nor Checo looked happy ﷺwith the car.
|They were both complaining of rear instability, especially under braking. So there will be some head-s🌟cratching and some people working on the simulator overnight back in Milton Keynes.
"The problem will be tomorrow when we get to the final free practice session, the track will be roasting hot and not really a good reference point for qua𓂃lifying later on."
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