Verstappen<\/a> is unsure how the team’s RB22 will perform on a more traditional circuit with hot weather expected.<\/p>\n“Great memories here in general but at the same time, there are still so many unknowns for us that we first have to see how it goes in practice,” said Verstappen during Thursday’s media day.<\/p>\n
“I have no idea at the moment how these tyres are going to operate with the hotter temperatures. That\u2019s why I think in practice it\u2019s important to get a basic understanding of what\u2019s going on, what we need to do. I think at the moment it\u2019s still a little bit unknown.”<\/p>\n
Verstappen confirmed that he would be running a new engine in Barcelona after problems in Monaco meant his front row start was wasted as he failed to get off the line, adding “Monaco didn\u2019t have the ending that we wanted but life goes on.”<\/p>\n
In contrast, Hadjar enjoyed his best weekend since joining Red Bull at the start of the season and came away with the second F1 rostrum of his career.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman believes the characteristics of the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit will be more similar to Suzuka earlier in the season, where Hadjar finished P12 and Verstappen P8.<\/p>\n
“You go into this weekend, you expect similar performance to a track like Japan \u2013 high-speed corners, energy demanding track \u2013 so you\u2019re doubting a lot [the performance],” explained Hadjar.<\/p>\n
“Since then [Japan], we\u2019ve had upgrades on the car and we made sure when we come back to these types of tracks, we\u2019re feeling better. Tomorrow we\u2019ll know more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull duo Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar believe “there are still so many unknowns for us” ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-488091","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\/488091","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=488091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}