Montreal is also ‘scary’
From the streak of seven pole positions to sixth place in Qualifying in Monaco, the worst possible track to start so far from the podium. Max Verstappen he failed to achieve the ‘miracle’ in the Principality by touching the wall at the exit of Sainte-Devote in the second run of Q3, an error which did not allow him to complete the second timed lap, thus dropping from third to sixth position on the starting grid.
“Since 2022 we have had problems on the curbs, before we had an advantage in terms of performance and car in the other corners and therefore we were able to mask this defect, now that the others have improved this weak point of ours is coming out. If you don’t improve your weak points and others do, then what doesn’t work for you is highlighted. We can’t figure out how to fix it and it’s not a small issue, maybe we’ll have to wait until next year to fix this problem. More suitable tracks will arrive for us”said Verstappen and Canada is certainly not among them with all those chicanes to attack. Helmut Marko stated that Red Bull is experiencing data correlation problems between the simulator and reality when it comes to having to constantly climb curbs.
Regarding the fact that today the fight for the title could be more than reopened given that Leclerc starts from pole position, Verstappen highlighted that it is too early to look at the standings and to talk about the championship: “A bad race doesn’t change the title race, to aim to win the championship we need to be consistent in terms of performance and that’s what we have to try to do because there will be other tracks that won’t be easy for us in light of the situation. I don’t think about the ranking because anything can happen, the championship is long and a ‘no match’ doesn’t alter the situation.”
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