Max Verstappen has admitted that he and Red Bull \u201cneed to be realistic\u201d about their chances at the upcoming Italian Grand Prix, with the Dutchman setting out the aim of \u201cjust trying to have a good weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n
Verstappen<\/a>\u2019s home event last time out in Zandvoort ended in disappointing fashion after he suffered a crash at the end of the first lap<\/a>, putting him out of the running while stand-in team mate Liam Lawson<\/a> salvaged points for the squad in P7.<\/p>\n Looking ahead to Monza, Verstappen will sit out Free Practice 1 as Ayumu Iwasa gets behind the wheel before he returns to action for FP2 \u2013 and while it is a track that he claimed victory at last season, the four-time World Champion is keeping his expectations modest this time around.<\/p>\n \u201cLet’s see,\u201d he said of his prospects. \u201cOf course I’m not doing FP1, so we’ll see afterwards how the car will be. Trying to get it into a nice window, but at the same time we also need to be realistic, where we are at the moment as a team and how we’re performing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll just try to have a good weekend. I know it’s already going to be very complex with the energy around here, so we just need to try and understand that first and then we’ll just see from there where we are in the pecking order.<\/p>\n \u201cJust going off the last few races, I think we just need to be realistic.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking back at the difficult end to what will be the last Dutch Grand Prix, Verstappen conceded that he does not think it would have been a particularly strong outing even if he had been able to continue.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have loved to have completed the race, even though I don\u2019t think it would have been a magic race for us pace-wise,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole weekend we were a bit off, and I was not feeling well so all the combinations were not there.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I look back at it with a lot of positives \u2013 I won races there, we had really great moments with the fans there, so overall it was a crazy experience and I\u2019m very happy that I got to have a home Grand Prix like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has admitted that he and Red Bull \u201cneed to be realistic\u201d about their chances at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-878884","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\/878884","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=878884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}