168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen says Red Bull have ‘thrown away two race weekends’ with their decision not to bring a low-drag rear wing to the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Verstappen qualified fifth for Sunday’s grand prix, one place ahead of his title rival 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris. As long as the Dutchman does not lose more than two points to the McLaren driver, he will be crowned world champion for the fourth time. Red Bull teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Sergio Perez was knocked out in Q1 in 16th place. 

But Verstappen’s focus after qualifying was Red Bull’s straight-line performance deficit compar💙ed to their rivals, due to the team not having a specific low-drag rear wing suited to high-speed tracks like Las Vegas and Monza.

“We opted to not make [a low drag re🐼ar wing],” Verstappen told media including Motoඣrsport Week in Las Vegas.

“We don’t have one. So this is already from 2022. I think we just never thought that we would run it that low. A🗹nd then with th๊e budget cap, you choose your priorities and we shifted that.

“Would I have liked to have a lower downforce wing? Yeah,ဣ for sure. Or at least 🐻a different shape. A more efficient shape.

“But it’s something that we’ll look at.🤪 But on the other hand, there’s only one more year left with these rules.

“And I don’t know if it makes sense. But for me at least, it feels a bit like we throw away꧃ two race weekends like this because you definitely lose too much on the straights.”

Asked where he felt he was losing time, Verstappen explained: “In the corners and on the straights. We know that with our wing n🤡aturally you lose top speed,🌳 especially with the DRS open. It's a bit of a handicap.

“We knew that and that's some𝐆thing that we have to deal with on a trackไ like this track, like Monza. But also besides that, I always felt like the tyres were a bit of a struggle for us to get them in the right operating window.

“I do think that we did the best we could in qualifying with what we had, and then P5 is the result. We got a bit lucky because with Le🌳wis not putting a lap in, otherwise it would have been P6. I thin🐠k we really maximised what we could.”