Max Verstappen admits he is becoming de-motivated by the persistent 🔜technical issues he is continuing to suffer in 2017 after his Belgian Grand Prix came to an abrupt end after just eight laps.

Having shown promising pace i✃n the Red Bull Racing RB13 during practice and qualifying, despite a power deficit to Ferrari and Mercedes, Verstappen was running fifth early on behind the leaders when he suffered a failure on his Renault power unit.

His fourth technical related DNF of the season💧 – and his sixth in 12 races -, Verstappen could not hide his frustration at the persistent issues, not least because it happened at his ‘adopted home’ rac🌸e in front of a massive crowd of Dutch supporters.

“Frustrated, disappointed, and really not happy. For a top team, this cannot happen. In the beginning you can say it’s bad luck, those things happඣen but if it’s happening again and🍨 for the sixth time this year you can’t call it bad luck anymore.”

“[I’m sorry] Especially for the fans, they 🍨buy very expensive tickets to come and watch the race and then after e꧃ight laps it’s finished.

“It’s very de-motivating because the whole weekend you are working very hard, you have a great qualifying and are looking forward to the race but then again you retire after eight laps. I don’t k❀now what to say, it’s been a very tough year.”

The latest failure leaves Verstappen well down on his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in the overall standings having amassed on 💎67 points to his counter🀅parts 132 points.