Red Bull<\/a>, echoed Verstappen\u2019s sentiment as he acknowledged that the squad still had room for improvement.<\/p>\n\u201cMax was full of controversial radio messages today!\u201d Monaghan commented. \u201cThe car was poor in places. It\u2019s fine, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s that different from anybody else really \u2013 it\u2019s not as if we\u2019re miles off. I think he\u2019s identified the very obvious weaknesses we are encountering \u2013 it might well be similar to everybody else, and it\u2019s our job to fix it now, or improve it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be another high-speed challenging circuit \u2013 it has four fast corners on it and we have to navigate them! I think if you look at the Qualifying lap, it\u2019s how you distribute your potential. [With] the more sustained running, can we manage the tyres differently and are other people doing different things to us\u2026 It doesn\u2019t matter, we\u2019ve got to race on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monaghan admitted that the team have made \u201ca lot of progress\u201d since racing at Japan’s similarly high-speed Suzuka Circuit in March \u2013 a weekend that proved challenging for the squad \u2013 but added: \u201cOur opposition are not standing still, so our measure is, relatively, ‘have we got closer?’ I think we have, it\u2019s just maybe we\u2019re not quite close enough yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
In terms of how he judges the pace of Red Bull\u2019s rivals so far in Barcelona, Monaghan concluded: \u201cIt almost doesn\u2019t matter. I don\u2019t mean to be dismissive \u2013 what the others do is not necessarily going to influence us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to get the best out of our car, see how to operate it best \u2013 what the opposition do, I can\u2019t do much with. We can look at deployment patterns and things like that, and we can learn from those guys perhaps.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can see what they do with their tyres, how they approach an out-lap, how we approach an out-lap \u2013 all of these things we can learn from, but ultimately we have to get the best out of our car from whatever it needs, whatever it demands, and then we\u2019ll see where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has conceded that Red Bull have \u201ca lot of work to do\u201d following the opening day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-733073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733073","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=733073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}