Red Bull reveals cause disappointing race Max Verstappen

Posted on 20-06-2016 at 14:34 by CasperH – 28 Comments”

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner provides clarity about the problems for Red Bull yesterday during the Grand Prix of Europe.

Bold graining, that was where Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo faced in the first half of the race in Baku, yesterday. Max left yesterday already know that he is already wear felt after two laps of racing. The first consequence of these problems was that there were switched had to be on a tweestopstrategie instead of the planned single pit stop. But also on the second set of tires were the Red Bull cars not fast enough. Both the soft as the supersoft compound ran it all for no meters.

There was only improving when the Red Bulls in the second pit stop changed to the medium compound. On which bands did Max even the second-fastest lap of the note, nearly eight tenths faster than his teammate throughout the race and managed to drive away. The cause for the graining lies in the downforcesettings that the team used. Because of the low downforce car had to be driven to somewhat keep up on the straights, the cars in a very limited window in which the bands could be held. This proved to be so wrong to go, yesterday. Ultimately, the problems with (in particular) the soft and supersoft Pirelli’s so a result of driving with little downforce.

The team analyzes where exactly has gone wrong. Apart from the problems with the tires were also the brakes properly at the end of their wits at the end of the race, something in particular Daniel Ricciardo (who, incidentally, is much better qualified than Max) suffered from at the end of the race. That could also explain why Max Verstappen yet they are quickly on him closed up in the final laps.