Red Bull driver Max Verstappen believes that his final hot lap in Q3 was compromised by Felipe Massa and that his package in qualifying was capable of better than sixth place, from where he will start the Bahrain Grand Prix.
In the media pen after qualifying Verstappen gestured to Felipe Massa and said, “My final run was hurt by my little friend on the right with the white suit!”
“I was preparing behind Lewis for my lap and we started to go up into the last corner. Felipe squeezed in front and I had to stay in first gear to keep a gap to him. The tyres cooled down which hurt my first sector.”
“The tyres just cooled down too much because we already had quite a slow out lap so we were always on the limit. That just hurt my first sector. If you lose straight away two tenths that’s not ideal.”
“You try and catch up but you know it’s very hard if the tyres are not in the window. The pace was there today but just not on the last run when it counted. Sometimes that happens if you have some traffic.”
“It was definitely possible to be a bit further forward today. But last time I started a bit further behind and ended on the podium. Anything is possible!”
“We have made many small improvements and tried to optimise everything which seemed to work. We understand the car more and more with every run that we do.
“I think Mercedes is still too fast for us but the Ferrari doesn’t look too far ahead,” he added. “We are definitely closer. In the end we’re not too far away and there’s still a race to go so we’ll see,” added the Dutch teenager.
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