Max Verstappen has explained that he was left “praying” other cars would miss him after his failure at the start of the Monaco Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
From second on the grid, Verstappen bogged down at the start with an engine failure, and was left exposed as the field roared past.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the Dutchman was able to peel off to the left-hand side and was not collected by another car as he retired at the end of the first lap.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Reflecting on what happened, Verstappen explained that the issues had started on the formation lap.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The formation lap already felt a bit off, but on the pre-start, it was completely normal, I found the RPM target, but it was going at all,” Verstappen told media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It was just shooting up and down, and as soon as I dropped the clutch, that was it. The engine bogged down completely, and the noise I heard from the engine afterwards – I got some power back out of Turn 1, but I just lifted off and brought it home.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I had no power, so I was steering left with the friction of the wheels, and I was just praying that everyone would go to the right.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But everyone luckily reacted.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“If I were leading the championship, then of course, it is a very painful one, but like this, it is less painful but still really annoying and disappointing for everyone.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Everyone wants to finish every single race, but I just hope we understand quickly what it is and fix it.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has explained that he was left “praying” other cars would miss him after his failure at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466654,"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":["post-466653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466653","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=466653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}