Max Verstappen has drawn unusual praise for his decision to overrule Red Bull and forge a different direction at the Italian GP.<\/p>\n
Last time out, Verstappen opted for an uber-low downforce set-up at Monza to secure pole and the win with the fastest single lap in F1 history, and then converted that in the fastest-ever F1 race, in terms of average speed.<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s engineers wanted to go with a higher downforce set-up, but Verstappen got his way, something former IndyCar star James Hinchcliffe felt was important as Verstappen asserted himself in new areas within the team.<\/p>\n
“The number one thing that the whole team was talking about afterwards was trusting their race driver,” Hinchcliffe explained.<\/p>\n
“So much of what happens in a Formula 1 team and development comes from what the computers tell you, what the sensors and the simulation tell you.<\/p>\n
“Max had a different opinion, and Laurent, being of an engineering mind, said: ‘All right, let’s listen to the best sensor we have.” That is Max Verstappen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He said: “Look, I can make it work with a low-downforce setup. The team, the engineers wanted, the simulations wanted higher downforce than what they wanted.<\/p>\n
“He put it on pole and he won the race, running away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He is such a key asset, and it is really interesting that Max is having a greater influence in engineering, and that’s possibly down to the relationship with Laurent as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has drawn unusual praise for his decision to overrule Red Bull and forge a different direction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155165,"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-155164","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\/155164","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=155164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}