Verstappen: ‘P9 was the maximum achievable in Mexico

Posted on 02-11-2015 at 7:21 by sir_smokalot – 17 Comments”

Max Verstappen finished yesterday for the fifth time in a row in the points, and more than his ninth place was according to the 18-year-old Limburger.

Although we are the Grand Prix of Mexico yesterday, difficult, very exciting to call drew Max there for him the maximum, and remained also until the finish, something that, at the beginning of the season, not always could say.

It was the first Mexican GP in 20 years, the last winner was Nigel Mansell (yesterday) yesterday was the Championship. For Verstappen started the race a good start from P8, where he and Felipe Massa managed to outwit. After almost everyone for him stopped, he drove quite a while on P3, but after the first stop it became clear that Max in terms of lap times with the top able to come. This says Max on his website:

My start was fine and I went to P6, I was very happy with it. The first stint, in which I set my own pace could drive, went very well. At one point I could see the Red Bulls track, but I had to let them go because my motor is too hot. From that moment, it was not the easiest race. I had to take it easy for the car to cool down and that has me unfortunately, a lot of time.

High speeds

Even though reason the cars with a lot of wing (similar to Monaco), the downward pressure that this generated was compensated by the thin air, so that during the race speeds of up to 366 km/h were clocked. The highest speed of Max we have not at hand, but lower it for sure. This was probably also the reason why Max at the end does not extend past the Force India of Perez came to, even though his tires are ancient.

Rain

Predicted the Mexican Gerrit Hiemstra 100% chance of rain, but apparently is 100% in Mexico equal to ‘maybe’ because we have not a single drop seen unfortunately. Notable in the race for me was the stupid way in which Kimi his own glass ingooide against Bottas, it starts becoming pretty clear that were times on the top of it is, and I also wonder why Ferrari him for 2016 contracted.

The season still has 2 races: later this month, Brazil and Abu Dhabi still held.