Max Verstappen has voiced his desire to make changes to his Red Bull car overnight after enduring a major struggle during qualifying for the British Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Red Bull was unable to pull itself into the pole position fight on Saturday, with Kimi Antonelli soaring to his fifth pole of the year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen ended the session in seventh place and was out-qualified by team-mate Isack Hadjar, who powered himself to fifth on the starting grid.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Dutchman highlighted that the team struggled to pull its car balance away from the limitations that appeared on Friday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe balance wasn\u2019t right to begin with,\u201d Verstappen told select media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It wasn\u2019t good on Friday either, so in that regard, it stayed the same. But we also lacked top speed. We were lagging behind a bit throughout the entire qualifying session.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, of course, you use up more battery power because you\u2019re going full throttle for longer. In the final sector, it\u2019s a complete disaster.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen’s concerns extended to the power unit, which he believes will leave him vulnerable down the straights during the race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried, but in terms of setup, it didn\u2019t really improve anything,\u201d\u00a0he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the straights, for some reason, there was something wrong with the engine. That\u2019s obviously my biggest concern for the race.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen added that he is eager to make changes to his car overnight and completely revamp his set-up.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, doing so would breach parc ferm\u00e9 conditions, relegating him to the pit lane for the start of the grand prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to [make changes],\u201d\u00a0he stated. \u201cIf you start here, you\u2019re going to keep driving it anyway. You\u2019ll even drop more spots.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that regard, I\u2019d rather we make some adjustments. The engine just isn\u2019t running right. We were too slow on every straight.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“On a track like Silverstone, it\u2019s obviously extra painful when you don\u2019t have top speed.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has voiced his desire to make changes to his Red Bull car overnight after enduring a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510114,"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-510113","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\/510113","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=510113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}