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max verstappen He believes he will need the cars to move up the order at Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix before “retiring” them after qualifying only fifth on the grid.
In a surprising way, red BullVerstappen struggled for pace and will start on the third row between the Mercedes drivers of George Russell and Kimi Antonelli.
lando norris sealed a amazing pole position Both ahead of Ferrari while remaining championship leader oscar piastri Will start position directly behind Verstappen seventh on the grid,
Verstappen, who has won three of the last four races, trails Piastri by 40 points as he looks to produce the most incredible performance. f1 World Championship return.
But when asked on Saturday what the problems were with Red Bull’s RB21 car, the Dutchman replied: “If we had known, we would have changed it – unfortunately we don’t know, we have tried a lot of things, but it hasn’t been good.
“It’s not a lack of trying, it’s just not finding it. We tried to do something again, we didn’t get it quite right, it didn’t allow me to move forward, I already knew from Q1 it wasn’t going to happen.
“Basically everything we tried didn’t really work.”
Verstappen also believes there is a lack of respite and surprisingly said that, in his view, moving up the order would require the cars ahead of him to retire from Sunday’s Grand Prix.
“When we have no momentum, no recovery drive, I need to retire people to finish ahead,” he said.
“It’s not going to suddenly change tomorrow.”
Verstappen is chasing his fifth consecutive title while Norris and Piastri are both fighting for their first title. Norris in particular now has a golden opportunity to score big points in his favor on Sunday.