Red Bull reveal extent of damage to Max Verstappen’s car after rare error

Red Bull have revealed the damage Max Verstappen picked up when he stru💟ck 🅘a bollard in Miami.

Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB20. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 6, Miami Grand Prix, Miami, Florida, USA, Race
Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB20. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 6, Miami Grand…

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen sustained significant floor damage after hitting a bollard in the F1 Miami Grand Prix.

Verstappen 🦂appeared in control of the early stages of Sunday’s race in Miami but the reigning world champion made a rare error when he skipped over the Turn 15 chicane and wiped out a bollard.

The Dutchman would go on to finish second to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris af🔯ter the McLaren driver capitalised on a Safety Car𝓀 period to jump into the lead, before pulling clear of Verstappen.

Unusually, Verstappen💦 was unable to keep pace with Norris in the final stint and ended up finishing over seven seconds behind.

After the race, Horner revealed Verstap♏pen had picked up “quite a lot of damage” to the floor of his RB20.

“I don't think we had a great balance all weekend,” Horner𒅌 sai✃d.

“Obviously, he 🐬hit the bollard around lap 20 and that has actually done quite a lot of damage to the unde♓rside of the car, so we will have to look at exactly what the effect of that was.

“It is a reasonable amount of the area around the left rear floor. There is a reasonable amount that's missing and you can see it awfully flexing as wꦿell, so it certainly 🍷wouldn't be helping.”

Horner said Red Bull calculated the damage as costing Verstappen a🦩s much as two-and-a-half tenths eve🉐ry lap.

"He lost two and a half tenths evꦏery lap in turn one," Horner added.

"Now whether that was because of the damage, I think when you actually see the pictures of what was missing it wasn't des𒆙igned like that.”

Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing in the post race FIA Press Conference. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 6, Miami
Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing in the post race FIA Press Conference. Formula 1 World…

Horner’s claim appeared to contꦉradic๊t Verstappen’s immediate comments after he got out of his car.

“I never really felt comfortable the whole weekend w💟ith it,” the three-time world champion admitted. “I think on the medium it was still OK-ish, but on the 𝔍hard it was quite a disaster.

"I mean, just low grip, just very tricky balance in the low-speed. I couldn't really lean on the rear while in theꦕ high-speed I was understeering a lot.

“So when you have these two issues, you cannot also balance it out because you're chasing two different things. So yeah, just dr𓃲iving to the grip that I had and it was not a lot.”

On the bollard strike and picking up possible damage, Verstappen added: “I decided to take it out and test the durability of the front wing as wౠell.

"So that's♑ a crash test done. Yeah, there was no damage. The cone was out of the way for everyon🤪e, so it was basically a free-for-all after that.

“It didn't feel different, so ෴I don't know. Maybe it was already damaged. I don't know. I mean I hit that thing and then my pace was the same so I didn't really know if there was damꩲage.” 

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