McLaren CEO Zak Brown believes it would be a “big mistake” to rule out 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen from winning this weekend’s F1 Belgian Grand Prix despite being hit with a 10-ꦏplace grid penalty.

Verstappen can only start from 11th on the grid at be♌st after he was hit with a grid pen🐽alty.

The Dutchman has been fo🐟rced to use a fourth power unit and thus will be demoted on the grid.

Verstappen dominated first practice at Spa-Francorchamps, topping the times🔯heets by over 0.5s ahead of Oscar Piastri.

Despite Verstappen’s penalty, Brown thinks it w🌠ould be foolish to think the Red Bull driver can’t win.

“It’s🌜 a tricky track with how much downforce do you want versus straight-line speed,” he said. 

“Max’s second sector there was pretty awesome. You’ve got to assum꧒e he’s on for pole whiꦉch means P11.

“You can pass arounꦐd here. I think he went from 20th to ninth in two, three laps not long ago. I think it will be a big mistake to think he can’t go from P11 to P1.

“We got to 🅷take advan♒tage of every opportunity that we can.”

Sky Sports F1 pundit Martin Brundle was very impressed with Verstappen’s ear🌱ly form at Spa, describing it as “ominous”.

“It’s FP1 but he was flying out there,” he explained. “Both in single lap and longer runs. I have just been looking at his tyres. The so💝fts look quite good. The soft tyres that c༒ame past us when we were up at McLaren waiting for Zak, looked awful. The mediums still looked a bit angry.

“So I think Max was out there on this new tarmac and has rea🐲lly hit a sweet spot in car setup, driving style and just the speed he was carrying.

“I think it looked ominous just how go⛄od Ve𝓡rstappen and Red Bull were then.”

Verstappen sits 76 points clear of Lan♛do Norris at the top of the F1 drivers' 🐠championship ahead of Sunday's race.