Lando Norris<\/a>\u2019 struggles on ageing tyres to reclaim P2 once again, although Leclerc ultimately demoted him to third in the closing stages of the race.<\/p>\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t have the pace of Kimi,\u201d Verstappen said. \u201cAt the same time I think the way we used our tyres, the order, was wrong \u2013 probably also the wrong compounds in hindsight, but that\u2019s something to still understand because lately, the harder compounds have not been competitive and now suddenly they were.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom our side, I think there were too many issues with the power unit unfortunately in terms of consistency. You can\u2019t rely on a consistent balance through a corner because if every lap and every corner it\u2019s doing something different, it\u2019s very hard to be on top of things.<\/p>\n
\u201cA slow pit stop was also very costly today, so a few things to analyse and do better.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a bit hit or miss, I guess \u2013 two really good weekends where we were on top of things, and here we weren\u2019t on top of things. Different layout, of course, where you have a bit more high-speed corners. It seemed like we were not fantastic in the high-speed corners.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hadjar wasn\u2019t best pleased either, having dropped to P5 on the opening lap with similar difficulties linked to his launch. He managed to improve back to the top three with an extended soft-tyre stint, but was ordered to let his team mate overtake him once Verstappen had moved onto fresh rubber.<\/p>\n
When Hadjar eventually peeled into the pits, he got stuck on the incorrect engine mapping and faced a throttle problem as a result, which impacted his performance on the way to finishing P6.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cEverything went wrong. First of all, the race start \u2013 I did everything on my side. I had a clutch overdelivery so it was completely out of my control again. It\u2019s really starting to p*** me off.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a nice feeling when you know you’re going to drop the clutch, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to have. Today was very poor. That first stint was very strong. I kept extending. I had the pace of Kimi towards those last couple of laps, so I was quite confident. I was blocked on a pit stop throttle map, it was just undriveable and that was it for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve worked really hard on that race pace and today it showed. I was extremely comfortable on the softs, pushing them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car was behaving really well \u2013 apart from all the electronic downsides, I think everything was positive. In a world where we can fix our starts, I think we can have a brilliant race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar shared a collective disappointment in their inability to fight for more points at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-894736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}