Max Verstappen has cautioned against expecting Red Bull to be competitive “every single weekend” after his dominant victory at the Italian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman crushed the opposition at Monza, crossing the line 19 seconds clear of Lando Norris in second place, at the end of an uncharacteristically underwhelming event for McLaren.<\/p>\n
However, Verstappen believes Red Bull’s newfound form is “still a bit track dependent”, despite the upgraded floor on the RB21 – the main catalyst for victory – being understood to be more of a breakthrough across the board than first anticipated.<\/p>\n
The Milton Keynes squad almost made steps with its set-up. Changes to Verstappen’s car between FP3 and qualifying unlocked previously unattainable balance.<\/p>\n
That directly contributed to his pace at the Temple of Speed, where he set the quickest-ever lap in F1, when measured on average speed.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, the four-time F1 drivers’ champion does not expect to be in the mix consistently for the remaining eight rounds of the campaign.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s still a bit track dependent,” Verstappen told media, including RacingNews365. “[At Monza], you drive low downforce.<\/p>\n
“It always seems like our car is a little bit more competitive when it\u2019s low-to-medium downforce.<\/p>\n
“So it’s not like suddenly now we are back. It’s not like we can fight, I think, every single weekend.”<\/p>\n
Although the 27-year-old did celebrate the six-time constructors’ champion’s improved understanding of how to better extract performance from the RB21, something that has plagued the team all season long.<\/p>\n
“But the positive is that we seem to understand a little bit more what we need to do with the car to be more competitive,” he added.<\/p>\n
“So I hope that carries on into the coming rounds as well, and some tracks will be a bit better than others.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has cautioned against expecting Red Bull to be competitive “every single weekend” after his dominant victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-133624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}