Max Verstappen faces another potential setback to contend with at the Brazilian Grand Prix, as Red Bull consider making \u201cdrastic\u201d changes to the RB21.<\/p>\n
Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko has called a team meeting to determine the best course of action after Verstappen<\/a> suffered a shock Q1 elimination at Interlagos. Should Red Bull make further changes to the RB21, it would see Verstappen go from 16th on the grid to a pit-lane start.<\/p>\n Max Verstappen facing Brazilian GP pit-lane start?<\/p>\n In a stunning turn of events at the Brazilian Grand Prix, Verstappen was unable to progress beyond the first part of qualifying, an exit brought about by a pure lack of pace.<\/p>\n Teammate Yuki Tsunoda also failed to make the Q2 cut in a disastrous qualifying for Red Bull.<\/p>\n The cars came back out of parc ferme conditions between the Sprint and qualifying, with Red Bull taking a wrong turn. Marko has therefore called a team meeting to decide whether they continue down this path, or overhaul the RB21 setup again for the race.<\/p>\n Doing so would be a breach of the parc ferme regulations, and would force Verstappen to start from the pit lane, with his hopes of a fifth consecutive Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a> now very much hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n \u201cWe now have to see what we are going to do about this situation,\u201d Marko told ORF. \u201cWhether, for example, we are going to make drastic changes again.<\/p>\n \u201cThat would mean we would have to start from the pit-lane.<\/p>\n \u201cBut before we do that, we need to sit down together and calmly consider what the best option is.\u201d<\/p>\n Reflecting with\u00a0Sky Deutschland on a bruising Brazilian GP qualifying for Red Bull, Marko added: \u201cIt went badly wrong. We slowed down everywhere.<\/p>\n \u201cThe circuit got faster and we lost time in all sectors. In fact, there was even less grip. Why? We need to find that out now. But the damage has been done. Now we\u2019ll see what we can still make of it. But it doesn\u2019t look good.\u201d<\/p>\n Red Bull had been a team revitalised in recent rounds. Verstappen is on a run of six consecutive podium finishes, a streak which included Italian, Azerbaijan and United States GP victory.<\/p>\n But, a dent was put in that momentum last time out in Mexico. Only a masterful execution of the one-stop strategy from Verstappen, who kept his soft tyres alive, allowed him to keep the podium run going, in a race dominated by championship leader<\/a> Lando Norris.<\/p>\n \u201cWe brought new parts or partially new parts to Mexico, which did not deliver the hoped-for success,\u201d Marko admitted. \u201cBased on that, we thought we would find the right direction, but that has not been the case either.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we have to look at where we took the wrong turn. Because this gap\u2026 Especially the fact that we lost time in Sectors 1 and 3, while the gap in Sector 2 remained the same. That means we didn\u2019t gain anything there, but we clearly lost out to the others.\u201d<\/p>\n More key Brazilian GP talking points from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 Max Verstappen makes alarming Red Bull claim after shock Brazil Q1 exit<\/a><\/p>\n