Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko believes the team has pinpointed the issue that plagued Max Verstappen during the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The four-time F1 drivers’ champion started eighth and finished ninth in the Hungaroring after a frustrating afternoon at the end of a painful weekend for the Milton Keynes-based squad.<\/p>\n
Marko labelled it the team’s “worst” round all year with the six-time constructors’ champions unable to remedy its usual Friday ailments, leaving Verstappen scrapping to reach Q3 after Yuki Tsunoda had become a Q1 casualty for the fourth time in eight grand prix.<\/p>\n
The latter endured a quiet afternoon from a pit lane start to P16, only a mid-race tussle with Nico Hulkenberg saving him from complete anonymity.<\/p>\n
Whilst Verstappen put on an overtaking clinic, the team’s early undercut pit stop strategy left him in traffic and struggling to recoup track position.<\/p>\n
Jeopardy loomed over the Dutchman after the stewards opted to investigate his clash with Lewis Hamilton, which ultimately came to nought, following the race.<\/p>\n
Red Bull flirted with the idea of a one-stop strategy for the 27-year-old, but having pitted early for the hard compound, it was always a long shot and was eventually decided against.<\/p>\n
When Verstappen was brought in for the second time from fifth, it consigned him to his lowly result, a fate worsened by a fundamental failing on the outskirts of Budapest, according to Marko.<\/p>\n
“It was our worst weekend so far,” the Austrian told ServusTV. “We didn’t get the tyres working for a moment.<\/p>\n
“Max Verstappen very briefly drove as fast as the front of the field, but that only lasted two or three laps.<\/p>\n
“Maybe a one-stop would have been faster, but even then, he would only have been sixth or seventh.”<\/p>\n
The 82-year-old did, however, feel the team’s difficulties were an outlier, suggesting it had already identified what went wrong.<\/p>\n
“But we think we know what went wrong,” he later explained to media, including RacingNews365. “The tyres didn’t work.<\/p>\n
“With that, it’s only about this weekend. I don’t think it will happen again, if that was indeed the reason.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko believes the team has pinpointed the issue that plagued Max Verstappen during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42656,"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-42655","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\/42655","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=42655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}