Max Verstappen does not believe it is a “surprise” that he has failed to score a podium finish in the past four rounds of the F1 season<\/p>\n
The Red Bull driver has not reached the rostrum since the Canadian Grand Prix, his longest run without a top-three finish since 2019, when he twice went three rounds without a trophy.<\/p>\n
Having finished a lowly ninth in the recent Hungarian Grand Prix, the four-time F1 drivers’ champion insisted that, given the difficulties the Milton Keynes squad is experiencing with the RB21, such a run of form is to be expected.<\/p>\n
The situation was particularly painful at the Hungaroring, where Red Bull’s usually trusty Friday night turnaround failed to salvage its weekend.<\/p>\n
It has left the Dutchman 97 points adrift of Oscar Piastri in the drivers’ championship standings, with Helmut Marko now joining the 27-year-old in conceding his title aspirations are done for the year.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s not a surprise, of course, if we look at the problems that we are having,” Verstappen told media, including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
“I think at the other end [of the spectrum], for like, four years, I\u2019ve had really a lot of good results, also.<\/p>\n
“So, it comes and goes, success.”<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tWhat was the issue in Hungary?<\/p>\n
Breaking down where the RB21 was struggling in Hungary, Verstappen maintained that strategy would not have alleviated any of his underperformance, in a race in which he finished lower than his eighth-place starting position.<\/p>\n
“The whole weekend, we were just really slow,” the 65-time grand prix winner explained.<\/p>\n
“We just struggled a lot for grip and low speed, medium speed, and, yeah, that was also the problem in the race.<\/p>\n
“Whatever we would have done, staying out long, doing what we did, I think we would have been struggling anyway.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen does not believe it is a “surprise” that he has failed to score a podium finish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-52288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}