Max Verstappen has set out the areas that Red Bull will be focusing on during Sunday\u2019s Spanish Grand Prix, with the Dutchman left feeling positive about his P3 result in Qualifying.<\/p>\n
Verstappen<\/a> had finished no higher than fifth across all three practice sessions held at the Madring circuit, having admitted at the end of Friday that he and the team were still \u201cgetting up to speed\u201d with each lap.<\/p>\n The four-time World Champion went fastest during Q2 of Qualifying, however, and later secured third place in Q3, beaten only by polesitter Lando Norris<\/a> and championship leader Kimi Antonelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n Quizzed on how he felt about the result afterwards \u2013 and if it was better than he had expected \u2013 Verstappen responded: \u201cYeah, the car was honestly in a quite decent window, and for us I think to be in the top three in Qualifying is good. We can be happy with that.<\/p>\n \u201cI think still there’s room for improvement \u2013 there can be some improvements made, especially in the final sector.<\/p>\n \u201cThat’s where we really were struggling probably a little bit too much with our deployment strategy. So that’s things to learn for in the future, but for us to be in the top three is good.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking ahead to Sunday\u2019s Grand Prix \u2013 the first Formula 1 race to be held at the Madring \u2013 Verstappen explained that tyre management will be a key focus for the event.<\/p>\n \u201c[It could be] a long race, tough on tyres, so we’ll be really about managing that and trying to really extract the most out of it and see what we can do,\u201d the 28-year-old said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has set out the areas that Red Bull will be focusing on during Sunday\u2019s Spanish Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-893243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893243","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=893243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}