Max Verstappen feels pole was possible without turbo lag
Max Verstappen believes he could have challenged for pole positiꦑon had he ꧙not encountered a turbo lag issue during British Grand Prix qualifying.
The Red Bull driver qualified fourth on the Silverstone grid and ⭕ended up just 0.183s adrift of polesitter Valtteri Bottas’ effort. Following qualifying, he revealed a power issue exiting corners hampered his performance and ultimately cost him further time.
“I honestly didn’t know what to expect in quali🌞fying,” Verst♏appen said.
Max Verstappen b𝕴elieves he could have challenged for pole position had he not encountered a turbo la💦g issue during British Grand Prix qualifying.
The Red Bull driver qualified fourth on the Silverstone grid and ended up just 0.183s adrift of polesitter Valtteri Bottas’ effort. Following qualifying, he revealed a power issue exiting corners hampered his performance and ultimately cost him further tiꦫme.
“I honestly didn’t know what t🃏o expect in qualifying,” Verstappen said.
“My Friday and also this morning was not good, lacking stability and we managed to find the stability🍸 from the car and it was alright.
“I kept having turbo lag coming out of the low speed corners, I had an issue with not the power I wanted to, so it didn’t pick up the throttle like I wanted, so we definitely lost a bit of laptime with that. But sti🍸ll to be that close to pole is good.
“It’s just a shame because we lost a bit of time, otherwise I think we could have fought for p𝄹ole.”
Asked to explain the issue, Verstappen replied: “It’s where the boost is kicking in. Normally we can [fine-tune it] but somehow tod🔥💯ay we couldn’t.
“So all the time when𒀰 you go on the power, some of the corners are low RPM, there’s just a lag.
“You go on throttle and nothing is happening and then you feel it kicking in. You lose performance, especi♉all🃏y here.
“After the ꦚcorners here there are long straights so you continuously lose [time].
“It’s a completely different power unit so there are a lot of benefits but some things are just a bit different 💜so it’s just a ꦑbit more fine-tuning but we normally get it right and you turn it around.”
ꦿVerstappen feels Red Bull’s impressive display was helpಌed by finding a good compromise between cornering performance and straight-line speed.
“I think this weekeꦕnd we found a good compromise between cornering and straight-line speed,” he explained.
“If you look at our wing I think we are running a bit less than Mercedes. So we are not too far away on the straights here and somehow our car is working really well through tꦛhe high-speed corners.
“For som🦋e reason last year, even when we trimmed the wing, it was not giving us that extra straight-line performance.”
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