Now Verstappen and Red Bull face the challenge of catching Piastri and McLaren in the championship battle and, when asked what the Milton Keynes-based outfit need in order to get on more equal footing with the papaya squad, Verstappen responded: “I think we need to find more overall performance, balance especially, and of course consistency.
“We are not good at every track, that’s quite clear. Bahrain, we were lacking a lot. Here [in Jeddah], for sure, it was a lot better. But, like I said, it’s also very low deg [tyre degradation] and then more cars come alive, so we still have work to do, but at least it’s a promising result.
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“Overall, it’s been a promising weekend, at the end of the day. We really managed to find a good balance or a decent balance, and that’s, of course, positive for us.”
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