Nico Rosberg has taken aim at Red Bull for the disparity in performance between Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda, questioning how the deficit can be so large.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman secured pole position for the Italian Grand Prix, setting a lap record at Monza – and the quickest lap in F1 history on average speed.<\/p>\n
His team-mate, however, was only tenth-fastest at the Temple of Speed, setting a lap time over seven-tenths of a second slower.<\/p>\n
The 2016 F1 drivers’ champion branded the delta between the pair “inexplicable” and labelled Red Bull’s seeming inability to remedy the issue “crazy”.<\/p>\n
The German highlighted the ongoing problem the Milton Keynes-based squad has endured with its second seat, which has seen Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon and Liam Lawson all fail to make the grade before Tsunoda.<\/p>\n
Even Sergio Perez, who initially proved a considerable improvement, eventually fell victim to the same fate alongside the Verstappen.<\/p>\n
“This has been years now, and once again, Yuki is more than seven tenths behind Max Verstappen,” Rosberg told Sky Sports F1. “That’s inexplicable.<\/p>\n
“I don’t understand because Yuki is a great… he knows how to drive a racing car.<\/p>\n
“How is it possible he’s just so far behind once again? It’s crazy that they can’t find a solution to that.”<\/p>\n
The Japanese does not have completely the same specification of RB21 as the four-time F1 drivers’ champion, but Rosberg is adamant the pair should be more evenly matched.<\/p>\n
“I’m hearing that his car is not 100% the same as Max Verstappen’s, but it’s not seven tenths. Maybe it’s a tenth or something.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, poor. I feel for Yuki, because this is, again, a really, really tough day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Rosberg has taken aim at Red Bull for the disparity in performance between Max Verstappen and Yuki…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-120197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}