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Brundle: "Verstappen seemed angry for much of the race"
- GPblog.com
Red Bull Racing was well on its way to a fine points score in the Bahrain Grand Prix, until both Max Verstappen' s and Sergio Perez 's car gave up the ghost in the final three laps of the race. Sky Sports analyst and former Formula One driver Martin Brundle shines his light on the team's problems.
The problems started earlier for Red Bull Racing. For example, Verstappen was heard disgruntled on the on-board radio on several occasions and was greatly inconvenienced by a problem with the power steering. "Verstappen seemed angry for much of the race," Brundle writes in his column for Sky Sports.
Brundle: 'Cruel irony for Red Bull'
"Angry that he perceived he wasn't allowed to push hard enough after the first two pit stops, angry that his tyres faded quite quickly, then very angry that his power steering had taken a knock, and then the cruel race-ending reliability issues," continues the 62-year-old Briton.
He calls it "cruel irony" for Red Bull that the safety car came out due to a fire at sister team AlphaTauri, after Pierre Gasly 's engine failed. According to Brundle, the increasingly hot leftover fuel that was in the tank at the time may well have played a crucial role in Verstappen and Perez's crashes.