Max Verstappen has slammed Red Bull in a scathing statement after losing out at the Italian Grand Prix. He’s just 62 points ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris in the Drivers’ Championship after a disappointing few weeks in Formula One.
He finished in P6 in Italy, 37 seconds off Ferrari winner Charles Leclerc. He came P2 in Zandvoort, still losing to Lando by more than 20 seconds. But it was after Monza that Verstappen admitted he might now lose his championship lead.
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“If we continue like this, we will lose both championships,” Max admitted. “We have to work hard and change a lot of things in the car, because if not, we will lose everything. Last year we had a great car, the most dominant in history, and we basically turned it into a monster.
“We basically went from a very dominant car to a car that was impossible to drive in the space of, what, six to eight months. I can motivate the team, that’s clear. But what I can’t do is design the car. Overall, it has been a difficult weekend in Monza, both in qualifying and in the race. And in terms of position today we got the most out of it.
“That’s racing. Now, what we have to do is work hard to try to return to the place we want; so these two weeks before Baku we have to focus on turning things around and solving the problems that we have identified during the past weekends.”
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