Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has revealed Max Verstappen is running an older specification of floor in Qatar.<\/p>\n
Verstappen has been unhappy with the performance of the RB21 all weekend at the Lusail International Circuit due to understeer and excessive bouncing.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman qualified for the sprint race in sixth place and made up two positions early on to finish the event in fourth.<\/p>\n
He enjoyed a more positive outing in the grand prix qualifying session with a run to third. It has now been revealed that through the weekend, Verstappen has been running the Red Bull floor that was originally introduced in Monza.<\/p>\n
This is despite the most upgraded specification being introduced in Mexico. Addressing Verstappen’s issues, Marko stated the concerns with the car are not solely related to the floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bouncing wasn’t just due to the floor; there were a few other things responsible for it,” Marko told Sky Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYuki Tsunoda was happy with the new floor from the start and got along well with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMax didn’t like it as much, so that was an individual decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen qualified for the Qatar Grand Prix on the second row as he aims to keep his F1 title hopes alive for the season finale in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old will line up behind the McLaren duo of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has revealed Max Verstappen is running an older specification of floor in Qatar.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318429,"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-318428","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\/318428","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=318428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}