Formula 1: Max Verstappen has called on Red Bull to 'change the whole car' following a disappointing result at the Italian Grand Prix.
“Last year we had a great car which was the most dominant car ever, and we basically turned it into a monster,” Max Verstappen said after an anonymous performance at the weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.
All this at a track at which Verstappen celebrated a record-breaking 10th successive victory last year at a time him and his team looked totally unstoppable. It’s similar to last year’s Singapore Grand Prix, where a precise set of circumstances handed the team its first and only defeat of the entire year.Team principal Christian Horner said it took Monza to bring out the worst in his car and lay its problems bare.
But it’s also a function of this being the third year of the regulations. The low-hanging fruit has all been picked. Teams are looking for smaller gains further out of reach, and increasingly they’re overextending themselves.For Red Bull Racing this is manifesting itself in chronic balance problems — that is, unmanageable oversteer or understeer.
“I think on other perhaps running more downforce hides some of the balance issues we have, and you can see that we have a disconnection in balance that just isn’t working. Now it looks like he turned off the victory tap as he swiped out of the Milton Keynes design office earlier this year too. Newey’s magic dust is that he’s massively experienced beyond his role as chief technical officer. Modern F1 teams employ hundreds of specialist staff to design cars, but Newey hails from days when he’d have to do practically all of it himself.His ability to conceptualise the entire car — a rare talent that earnt him the only half-joking reputation as the man who can see airflow — imbued Red Bull Racing with a quiet advantage.
“I think been there for some time,” Horner said, per ESPN. “I think actually really going through the data there were issues there at the beginning of the year in the characteristics. “I really feel like I’m in the same boat as I’ve been in for the last eight, 10 races, but now all of a sudden Max has come into similar issues,” he said.
“Obviously when you have that it means you can’t trust your tools, so then you have to go back to track data and previous experience,” he said.
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