The Japanese Grand Prix comes at a decidedly critical time for Red Bulloverwhelmed by accusations and suspicions for having breached the budget cap in the 2021 season. At the same time, with the investigations underway by the FIA on this case, the Anglo-Austrian team could celebrate the conquest of the pilots world title already on the occasion of this weekend, as Director Helmut Marko had hoped on the eve of the previous appointment in Singapore.
Obviously, the candidate in question for World Cup victory is Max Verstappen, one step away from the arithmetic conquest of his second world championship success five races from the conclusion of the championship. If the Dutchman manages to get on the top step of the Suzuka podium, while obtaining the fastest lap of the race, Charles Leclerc’s hopes of keeping the fight open would be definitively closed, regardless of the position of arrival of the Monegasque of the Ferrari: “Winning here would be a little bit more specialgiven our relationship with Honda – explained the Dutchman in the press conference reserved for pilots – I also think it was a shame not to be able to be in Japan last year to fight for the title. So we can’t wait to go back, and then we’ll see what happens. We need a perfect weekendthat’s for sure “.
For ‘perfection’, Verstappen refers to what happened in qualifying in Singapore last week, when the number 1 was forced by his team to give up pole position due to a reduced amount of petrol: “Just pay attention to the fuel levelthere isn’t much to change – he added – when you refuel your car for five laps, you can do five laps, not six. We can talk about it for hours, but nothing will change suddenly. In any case, it’s not just that: we had a very poor Friday in terms of the number of laps completed. So, even there, I think some things went wrong. We made a modification to the car that we couldn’t test because the track was wet, and we tested it in the race. It was a very uncertain weekend, and I think it was a great example of how you don’t want a weekend to go. So, you learn from that, but there is nothing that needs to suddenly change in the team. We all know it was a bad weekend, but this year we have also shown that we have had many other good ones, so we know how to do it ”.
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