The encouraging news is that Max Verstappen finished second in the Hungarian Grand Prix after a magnificent drive. The sobering reality is that the four-time champion repeatedly complained over the radio about his car, clearly dissatisfied with the RB22\u2019s handling.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the 71-time Grand Prix winner manages to secure one top result after another from what is generally the fourth-best car on the grid. Red Bull Racing team principal Laurent Mekies commented in *De Telegraaf*: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t go so far as to say that a narrow operating window is a hallmark of Red Bull Racing\u2019s cars, but it\u2019s true that we\u2019ve seen this characteristic in various models over the past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we must also note in this context that Red Bull Racing has won many championships with this type of car. It perhaps stands out more today because we are the hunters rather than the hunted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m convinced that Max Verstappen\u2019s sensitivity and skills enable him to spot problems that other drivers wouldn\u2019t notice \u2013 and which aren\u2019t picked up by other teams\u2019 data either. I don\u2019t think Red Bull has any greater problems with tyre wear than the competition; we simply have a driver who is better at recognising it. Only he can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former F1 driver Martin Brundle had this to say on the subject of tyre wear: \u201cWhat struck me at the Hungaroring was that Verstappen spent much of the race complaining about poor handling \u2013 or, more specifically, what he described as \u2018aerodynamic loss\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to find out a bit more about that, so I spoke to a few people. I was told that when the Red Bull Racing car sustains damage to its aerodynamic parts \u2013 particularly underneath the car, for example following an aggressive kerb ride \u2013 this has a disproportionate effect on the overall downforce and, consequently, on grip. That\u2019s what lies behind Max\u2019s comment about aerodynamic degradation or car wear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laurent Mekies again: \u201cIt\u2019s a fact that Max senses things that we cannot measure with our current data analysis and the sensors in the car. That\u2019s down to his exceptional sensitivity in the car and the technical expertise he possesses.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo give an example: Max sensed early on this year that there was a minor problem with the steering, and we couldn\u2019t detect it from the data. But thanks to him, we were able to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The encouraging news is that Max Verstappen finished second in the Hungarian Grand Prix after a magnificent drive.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-832004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832004","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=832004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}