Red Bull’s difficulties in Singapore, according to Max Verstappen, were worse than anticipated.
During both of Friday’s Singapore GP practice sessions, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez encountered a number of difficulties.
After a difficult Friday, Red Bull driver Max Verstappen attempted to explain the wide gap to Ferrari in practice at the Singapore Grand Prix and acknowledged things were worse than expected for the team.
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Verstappen finished the second practice session in eighth place, while Sergio Perez finished seventh.
Both Red Bull cars reported issues with rear grip.
In both FP1 and FP2, Ferrari led the field.
After FP2, Verstappen said to F1 TV, “Maybe it was unexpected today.”.
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“Yeah, just really having trouble with the car’s balance.
In FP2, we tried a lot of different things.
Some of them were successful, while others weren’t. The car never really came together. .
Basically, there are a lot of things to figure out tonight.
Only a few things are beyond our comprehension, so we must investigate those.
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“Ferrari is a quick car, but I think we were just much worse than we anticipated,” he said.
Naturally, I’ll work to close the gap, but there is a sizable one.
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Sergio Perez has comparable issues.
Perez lamented not being able to find any grip when accelerating out of the corners during FP2 on team radio at the same time Verstappen was having trouble.
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According to Perez, there are currently “so many interesting debates” that we “need to figure it out overnight.”.
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There are many things to consider, and we seem to be having a lot of trouble with the car’s rear end, especially in FP2.
Since qualifying is so crucial, we must find the best possible setup.
The Ferrari wasn’t expected to be particularly competitive in this area.
Simply put, we are too far away.
So yeah, hopefully we can narrow the gap a little bit more tomorrow.
However, I do anticipate being challenged.
“I believe that the most important thing is to ensure that we can improve the balance because right now we are out of balance.
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