The trio struggled with the set-up in qualifying<\/a> and had to start the 3-hour race at Portim\u00e3o from 14th on the grid. After an eventful race, in which Lulham received a drive-through penalty for a botched overtaking manoeuvre, Verstappen crossed the finish line in ninth place. <\/p>\nThe GP star, who drove the final 45 minutes of the race and managed to climb from 24th to 9th place, said afterwards, according to \u2018Verstappen.com\u2019: \u2018Overall, we had a decent weekend. Unfortunately, we made a mistake with the car\u2019s set-up in qualifying. That\u2019s why we didn\u2019t qualify where we actually should have been. We adjusted the set-up for the race and were then much more competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen praises his team-mates<\/p>\n
And the driver with 73 Grand Prix wins to his name praised his team-mates: \u201cBen had a really great first stint, during which he stayed out of the chaos at the start and moved us up the field. Chris also got off to a very strong start to his stint and put himself in a good position.\u201d On the subject of the penalty, the Grand Prix star said: \u201cBut then, unfortunately, a slightly over-optimistic manoeuvre against the car in front of us led to us receiving a deserved drive-through penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat meant I had to start my stint from 24th on the grid. But I enjoyed myself, and the pace of our car was really good. It was very hectic and chaotic all around me until I managed to work my way up the field. But to finish ninth in the end, after making up for that drive-through penalty, was, in my opinion, a really strong performance. So overall, it was an instructive and positive weekend, even if it wasn\u2019t the result we\u2019d hoped for,\u201d added Verstappen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four-time Formula 1 world champion proved once again this weekend that Max Verstappen simply cannot stay away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-937316","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\/937316","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=937316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}