{"id":43234,"date":"2025-08-03T23:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43234\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:01:01","slug":"red-bull-reveals-cause-of-hungarian-gp-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43234\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull reveals cause of Hungarian GP meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ninth place for Max Verstappen<\/a> from eighth on the grid, and a lapped 18th\u00a0for Yuki Tsunoda<\/a> from a pitlane start, represented a crushing underperformance in Hungary for a team with Red Bull Racing<\/a>\u2019s bulging trophy cabinet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko highlighted strategy as one of the elements that failed to work out for the team, but said fifth or sixth would still have been the best Verstappen could have expected in the Hungarian Grand Prix<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOne stop would have been better because the overtaking was really difficult,\u201d he told reporters after the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo maybe sixth or fifth, but the speed… it\u2019s just funny, two or three laps, he was doing the same laps as the leaders \u2013 but we believe we know what went wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“On the first stop the tyres were gone, and the second stop we thought we could overtake \u2013 but as we saw for a couple of laps, yes, the speed was there, but then it was over.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo by: Zak Mauger \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Max started eighth, lost a place to Liam Lawson<\/a> on the opening lap, quickly regained it and then passed Lance Stroll<\/a> for seventh with an opportunist move at Turn 6 on the third lap. But he was then stuck in the DRS train behind Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a>\u2019s Sauber<\/a> and Fernando Alonso<\/a>\u2019s Aston Martin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the race, Verstappen fulminated about the timing of his first stop at the end of lap 17, which put him out into traffic \u2013 but this was fundamentally because the queue that had formed behind Alonso, stretching all the way to Tsunoda in P19, began to splinter when Alonso stepped up his pace by around a second per lap. Some teams broke early for two-stop strategies, but the majority directed their drivers to extend their first stints with a view to stopping just once.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Verstappen therefore became enmired behind drivers who were managing their pace on a track where it is historically challenging to overtake. Crucially, he was behind the other Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg<\/a>, who had stopped early to get rid of the soft tyres on which he\u2019d started.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It took four laps to get by Hulkenberg \u2013 with another determined move into Turn 6 \u2013 then another two to pass Pierre Gasly<\/a>\u2019s Alpine<\/a>. Verstappen also spent five laps harrying Lewis Hamilton<\/a> for 11th\u00a0place, finally forcing his way past at Turn 4 with a move that earned him a referral to the stewards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By that point Verstappen had long since used up his new-tyre advantage, although he passed Racing Bulls<\/a>\u2019 Isack Hadjar<\/a> for a net ninth place just before Hadjar broke for the pits. Max stopped again for more hard-compound Pirellis at the end of lap 48 and he emerged behind Lawson again \u2013 but this time he was unable to make a pass stick and crossed the finishing line ninth on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Verstappen said on Saturday, after qualifying, that there was something fundamentally wrong with the RB21. But Marko claimed it was a tyre issue \u2013 or, more specifically, the mechanical and aerodynamic configuration of the car not working to bring the Pirellis into their optimum temperature \u2018window\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both Verstappen and Tsunoda had complained throughout the weekend of lack of grip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tyres didn’t work,” said Marko. \u201cI say it’s only here, and I don’t think it will happen again, if what we believe was the reason.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

When this contention was put to Verstappen himself, he was rather more sceptical.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know yet,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s a bit easy to say that, but we’ll have a look.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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