half a second adrift of polesitter, George Russell<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I guess we out-qualified one car [from Ferrari with Lewis Hamilton in seventh], but yeah, just a bit tricky to find the grip, the balance,” said Verstappen.<\/p>\n
“It was already a step forward from FP1, but of course still lacking a little bit to be a little bit further up the road.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s something that we need to understand. Now, what we can do with the balance for tomorrow, to find a bit more grip, really. A bit of balance, a bit of grip, to close the gap a bit.”<\/p>\n
Verstappen’s best result in a Sprint this season came in Miami with P5, and generally he and the team have found a chunk of performance ahead of Sunday’s Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
When asked if that gives him confidence that there\u2019s still a lot to play for this weekend, Verstappen replied: “Hit-and-miss, but let\u2019s see what we can find. I cannot tell you right now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen admits that he and Red Bull “need to understand” why they struggled for car balance during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-863423","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\/863423","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=863423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}