Max Verstappen questioned whether Red Bull’s strategy left the team with the right tyres available after failing to secure a third consecutive victory.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The four-time world champion started on the front row in second but was slow off the line, making a dive on Kimi Antonelli at the first corner impossible.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen was overtaken by Charles Leclerc in the opening corners but quickly reclaimed the position at the end of the first lap before settling into the race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Red Bull quickly committed to a two-stop strategy, although the Dutchman’s second stint saw him complain and describe his RB22 as “undriveable”.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen’s first two stints were on the softs before he moved onto the mediums, where his pace improved, allowing him to move through the field and back into second.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the 29-year-old was overtaken by Leclerc in the closing laps, leaving him to finish third behind the Ferrari driver and race winner Antonelli. Had it not been for a very late Virtual Safety Car, Lewis Hamilton may also have passed the Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Red Bull star acknowledged that he had got fortunate towards the end, but said the greater problem was the tyres at his disposal.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think our overall pace was not good enough, and then probably also the tyres that we had available were probably not the right ones,” said Verstappen.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So, that\u2019s something that we have to understand, because the last few races it was always working well for us.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“For whatever reason it didn\u2019t work out here, but we still managed to get on the podium. Maybe a little bit lucky with the VSC at the end, but I\u2019ll take it.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen questioned whether Red Bull’s strategy left the team with the right tyres available after failing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941368,"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-941367","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\/941367","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=941367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}