Max Verstappen has insisted there is no concern over his power units for this weekend’s title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bull made a late engine change before the penultimate race in Qatar, raising suspicions over whether the Dutchman had an issue with his newest engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Verstappen received a new engine in S\u00e3o Paulo which supported his charge from a pit lane start to third, a comeback which is partly why he is still in title contention.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four-time world champion enters the Yas Marina Circuit 12 points adrift of Lando Norris but with the experience of having won a title before in the season finale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ahead of the weekend, he is insistent all of his engines are in good health and downplayed all concerns surrounding the topic.<\/p>\n
Addressing if there are any concerns over his engines, Verstappen replied in a pre-weekend press conference which featured the three title contenders: “Maybe we’ll use the fifth one or the fourth.<\/p>\n
“They all run, so we’ll see. It doesn’t matter. They all work, so that’s the most important [thing].”<\/p>\n
Power unit issues have been a topic this season, primarily for Mercedes. Of course, McLaren is a customer outfit of the German manufacturer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, both Oscar Piastri and Norris have no concerns either about their engines, with Piastri even unaware of when his gets changed.<\/p>\n
Discussing if McLaren has any concerns over power units, Piastri said: “To be honest with you, I don’t even know which engine I’ve got in or when we change it, or whatever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So no, I’m not concerned.”<\/p>\n
Norris quickly added: “Same.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has insisted there is no concern over his power units for this weekend’s title-deciding Abu Dhabi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-169521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-racing","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}