This is why Verstappen was happy with the RB19 on Sunday
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On Saturday after qualifying, it was clear that Max Verstappen was not at all happy with the balance of his RB19. However, this was completely different on Sunday, here Verstappen said after the race that his car was a rocket. The Dutchman explains why he was happy with his car on Sunday.
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On Saturday, pole went to Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen was only three thousandths slower. On Sunday, the Red Bull Racing driver grabbed the lead as early as Turn 1, eventually extending it to over 33 seconds. How could the difference between the two days be so big? "We tried a few different things with the car in terms of set-up in Qualifying, which probably worked very well for today. But I mean, we tried so many things throughout the whole weekend, and it never worked on one lap," Verstappen said after the race.
"It might have also been that we just didn't make our tyres work well over one lap. Because you know, in the race, everything heats up and it runs hotter for a long period of time. So yeah, you need probably very different balance for that and basically yesterday it was understeering a lot today it's warmer, ambient and track, so probably it all came to me anyway. And that's why I probably had such a nice balance today," the Dutchman concluded.