Verstappen is ‘happy’ to be eighth

Max Verstappen qualified eighth at the Hungarian Grand Prix after a catastrophic weekend for Red Bull. For example, The quadruple world champion failed to find the settings allowing him to have a car that hung the asphalt.

With a lack of grip. In addition, a precarious balance between surveillance and understeer, and no solution in front of him, the Dutchman says he is even satisfied to start in eighth line.

“It’s like yesterday. For example, I have no pace, no grip, no balance, and there is not a turn where it seemed better” Launches a frustrated Verstappen, which nevertheless wants to be positive at the idea of having reached the top 10, when he thought he was eliminated.

“In a sense I am already happy to be in Q3 because I was out of the top 10 all weekend. Similarly, We verstappen ‘happy’ eighth tried to maximize as we could but we have no grip” he concludes, without much hope for the race.

Yuki Tsunoda has signed his best relative qualification compared to Verstappen this year with a time at 0. “163 of his teammate in Q1. Unfortunately, taking into account the difficulties of the RB21, the Japanese did not cross the first part of the qualifications.

“I think that with the team, we were in difficulty all weekend. I tried to maximize the performance but I was just slow. The preparation of the EL3 did not go well at all. we completely missed it because we fought with the traffic the whole session, it cannot happen” said Tsunoda.

He also challenges a problem related to grip: “We slide everywhere and that’s it. We normally have grip. but it is not there, we miss something and we tried to understand verstappen ‘happy’ eighth during the weekend, but we did not succeed.”