Max Verstappen hits out at Red Bull car after Dutch Grand Prix: ‘I couldn’t do anything’

Max Verstappen hits out at Red Bull car at Dutch Grand Prix: 'I couldn't do anything'Sky Sports F1

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00:00I mean we're surprised to see you on the receiving end of a 22 second gap at the end of the race

00:04But you did say to me yesterday that that McLaren had a lot of pace. So are you surprised by that gap?

00:09Well, I'm not surprised with you know, how my feeling was in the car

00:13Like I couldn't I couldn't do anything everything that I was trying to to do

00:17I think even you know, I said it during the race, you know, whatever I do with the car

00:21The inputs are not really translating. So

00:23When I steer left, it feels like the car is not steering left immediately or it just doesn't turn how I want to you know

00:29so

00:30Yes, it's very very complicated to understand also why that is and how we can fix that because yet today

00:39Positive as a start actually

00:41But I think quite quite early onwards in that stint even when Lando was behind

00:44I mean, he was just waiting for the opportunity. I decked a bit. Yeah, I couldn't really

00:51Make the tires work and yeah, he came by and honestly from that point onwards

00:55I I was just focused on bringing it to the end and in the best possible position

00:59How long is this car felt like this?

01:02Quite a while already. Of course some tracks, you know, it's a bit worse. It depends a bit on on the the type of track but

01:10Yeah, it's not easy

01:12You've had to drive would you say outside of in Red Bull within your time at Red Bull?

01:19It's it's let's say not not the easiest

01:22Yeah, so what can the team do?

01:23I mean

01:24we're at point in a season where everyone else is developing at a very fast rate and when you can see that developments that

01:29McLaren have made in your fight with them. What can the team do quickly? And what is a longer term plan essentially?

01:35there's a few things that we

01:37What we are looking at and hopefully yeah, we can improve the situation quickly, but only time will tell really