Max Verstappen said his stunning pole lap in qualifying shouldn’t imply that Red Bull has fo♛und a solution for its car balance problems in Formula 1.

The four-time F1 champion gained half a second between Q2 and Q3 to set a new lap record at Suzuka and beat McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to pole poꦦsition.

The performance earned the praise of Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, who said his outfit 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:"turned the car upside down" to allow 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Verstappen to set “one of his best laps in qualifying ever.”

The Dutchman also praised the work put in by168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Red Bull to get the tricky RB21 🦩into a windo🥃w where it was at least driveable.

However, he explaꦉined that the underlying is🥃sues plaguing the car remain unsolved, and the Milton Keynes-based squad was merely able to get him into a position where he could mask its e problems.

Asked if he still suffered from the ‘flexing’ issue that he complained about༺ in practice, the 27-year-old said: “I think that issue was a lot better today.

“But at the sa💮me ♌time, the corner balance is still what we need to work on.

“On low fuel over one lap, some bits you can mask a little bit. Bu🌼t it’s still not like I go into the lap fully confident and comfortable.

"So the last꧋ lap I was like, 🐬‘Well, I'm just going to not try and feel uncomfortable – just send it in and see what we get’.

“It’s very rare that a🧸 lap like that can stick, but this time it worked well. We know that we have some issues that we want to solve, but iℱt's clearly not easy to solve them at the moment.”

Red Bull’s now-famous balance issues came to light last year, as the team’s competitive fortunes rapiꦐdly dec🔥lined after a dominant start to the season.

Sergio Perez and his replacement 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson struggled to gel with the car, while Verstappen too has be༺en outspoken about the handling of tꦑhe 2025-spec RB21.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda’s promotion to the team this weeke🅠nd has provided another source of input to the team, with the Japanese driver explaining that he failed to get the tyres warmed up after qualifying 14th on the grid.

However, Verstappen explained that Red Bull’s problems go far beyond tyre warm-up, reveal🐬ing that the team experimented with several things before he had enough confidence in the car to bag pole position.

“I don't think it has to do with the tyres – for me, at least,” he stated. “It’s just the through corner balance that is very diffi🤡cult to manage.

“But we cl🌳early got it in a window where at least it was drivable to pus𒁏h. Luckily, it was enough for first, but I don't say, ‘Oh, I'm first, now everything is perfect.’

“We still have clear issues that we need to solve and that's what we're continu🎐ing to work on. This is a very tough track for the car in general. It's really high speed, so any little balance limitation you have can be multiplied in some places around the lap.

“Some tracks might work out a bit better for us, some might be worse. But it was clear that up until now this whole weekend we have been really experimenting a lot to find that drivable balance. At least it allowed me to push a bit more.”