Red Bull has revealed the cause of Max Verstappen’s surprising late retirement from the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The four-time world champion suddenly slowed on lap 45 and was immediately called into the pit lane by Red Bull to retire from the second round of the 2026 F1 season.<\/p>\n
At the time of his retirement, Verstappen had been running sixth behind Haas driver Oliver Bearman, following a recovery from yet another poor start.<\/p>\n
Just like in Saturday’s China Sprint, the Dutchman was slow off the line and dropped to 16th before steadily working his way through the pack at the Shanghai International Circuit.<\/p>\n
His progress was ultimately halted by his retirement, the cause of which the Milton Keynes-based outfit has now revealed.<\/p>\n
According to Red Bull, the 28-year-old’s RB22 suffered an energy recovery system (ERS) coolant failure, with the decision to retire the car made to protect the hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull has revealed the cause of Max Verstappen’s surprising late retirement from the Chinese Grand Prix. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3007,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,49,832,3006,3005,50,3004,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-476900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476900","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=476900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}