Max Verstappen had a difficult start to the weekend. He crashed once and had to do his utmost to set the third-fastest time. Something he eventually failed to do. The Dutchman was far from thrilled with his work.
"It was just a bad day for us, just not a good balance," said the Red Bull Racing driver in conversation with Ziggo Sport. "But the fact that we don't have a grip is actually an even bigger problem."
Verstappen was able to finish the planned program
Are these balance problems perhaps caused by the fact that the 'rake' of the RB16 at Monza is much less? "No, I don't think so. Last year things went well here. At the moment we just don't have the grip, on all four wheels we don't."
"I had some damage to the floor, of course we couldn't repair that, but in the end we were able to do our programme."