Red Bull<\/a> had done to the car to find something extra, Verstappen explained: \u201cFor me it\u2019s been two things. For sure, the car has not been great in the previous races, but also from my side I\u2019ve never felt comfortable with the layout of the car.<\/p>\n\u201cI think over those last few weeks the team has been pushing flat-out to try and bring upgrades to the car, and making me feel more comfortable with a lot of things in the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really pays off. I feel more in control of the car again, then I can push a bit more, then the upgrades are working. To be on the front row is way better than I expected heading into the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reflecting on what he could achieve on Sunday if he gets a good start \u2013 with the forecast for the race suggesting that rain might be on the way \u2013 Verstappen said: \u201cLet\u2019s start with a good start. I\u2019ve not had a lot of them this year!<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll try to have a look at that, for sure, and see what the weather will do tomorrow, but I\u2019m already very happy with where we are. From here there\u2019s like light at the end of the tunnel, and we can just push on and try to close the gap further.\u201d<\/p>\n
And in terms of how confident he feels when it comes to Red Bull\u2019s race pace, the Dutchman added: \u201cIt looked alright in the Sprint, once I was in clean air. Of course, tomorrow is a completely different day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen conceded that he feels there is now \u201clight at the end of the tunnel\u201d after claiming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-422498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}