Max Verstappen reveals what he is lacking after ‘difficult’ Friday
Max Verstappen makes Red Bu🍌ll F1 car admission after 'difficult' Fri🦋day practice in Japan.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen says he is lacking confidence in his Red Bull F1 car following a “difficult” Friday at the Japanese Grand Prix𝓰.
Reigning world champion Verstappen was only eighth-fastest in a chaotic second practice which was🎃 disrupted by four red flags and complained of understeer in his RB21.
Verstappen had a better morning, finishi🐲ng fifth in F🔴P1.
However, the four-time world champion h🃏as admitted he is not comfortable in his Red Bull at the high-speed Suzuka circuit.
"It was quite chaotic for꧟ everyone out there with all the red flags,” Verstappen said after FP2.
"Today has been꧑ quite difficult for me. We tried a lot of different things with the car but it seems like a lot of things are not really clicking at the moment, so it's quite difficult to put the lap down.
"You need a lot of confidence and commitment around here. At the moment, I d💝on'tꦛ feel like I can use that so I still have quite a bit of work to do.”
Verstappen assesses new teammate’s start
Verstappen was only just over a tenth ahead of his new Red Bull teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Yuki Tsunoda in sixth in first practice on Friday morning.
Tsunoda was remarkably promoted to the Red Bull main team just two races into the season, with Liam Lawson re🙈turning to the sister Racing Bulls🥀 squad following a terrible start to 2025.
Having impressed in th𒀰e first session, ꦑTsunoda was only 18th fastest in FP2 but did not complete a representative lap on the soft tyres.
"I think he started off pretty well in FP1 then FP2 wဣas chaotic for everyone,” V𒆙erstappen commented when asked about Tsunoda’s first day.
"We have a lot of homework to do from our ♉side to focus on the car but I think everything went quite well.”
Tsunoda’s early performance 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:drew praise from Red Bull team ꦍprincipal 🦂Christian Horner and Helmut Marko.
“A very good day for Yuki and for all of our young drivers," Marko told Sk♕y Sports F1.🐼 "Hadjar did well, and Lawson recovered.”
Verstappen was left unhappy with Red Bull’s brutal decision to swap Tsunoda and Lawson so early in the y🎃ear.
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