Verstappen's 'miserable day' in Silverstone: this is where it began to go wrong

09:23, 07 Jul

Updated: 09:25, 07 Jul

Co-author:Kada Sárközi

bySandy van Wijngaarden

The British Grand Prix will be a race Max Verstappen wants to quickly forget. The Dutchman started from pole position, but ultimately finished in P5. Analyst Peter Windsor saw the Dutchman having a difficult day in Silverstone.

After a superb lap in qualifying, Max Verstappen started the Grand Prix at Silverstone from pole position. He got off well at the start of the race and could keep the lead, but was eventually chased down by the two McLarens, who proved to be faster, Windsor could observe as well.

Windsor saw everything go wrong for Verstappen

"It all went wrong when Max's intermediates went off much faster than the McLarens. We talked about the tyre management situation yesterday, Red Bull versus McLaren," Windsor said in his analysis on his YouTube channel.

"And then it went from bad to worse for Max when he put on the new intermediates and then subsequently late in the race when it was dry he put on a new set of medium slicks and could barely get away from the two Williams of Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon."

Verstappen was competing with the two Williams for some laps after his spin during the second safety car restart, that relegated him to P10. Eventually, he could finish in fifth place.

"So a miserable day for Max Verstappen," the Australian summed up Verstappen's British GP.

"I refer to him because he was on the pole. He did eventually finish P5 so you could say from where he was he had a massive lose on intermediates at the restart. That was where he lost so much time. It wasn't a bad result but it was a miserable day for a guy who's on the pole yesterday at Silverstone," he concluded.