Is Verstappen happy with the speed of the upgrades? Max responds!

In recent years, Verstappen has been unstoppable. Last season, he won 19 out of 22 races. At the start of this season, it looked like the Dutchman would be dominant again, taking almost all races to his name, but for now, he is struggling. While other teams have made great developments, this is not the case at Red Bull.

Is Verstappen happy with Red Bull?

When asked if he is happy with the speed of development of the RB20 compared to previous years, he replied, "I mean, if you look at it realistically other teams have made bigger steps. That's very clear. But I know that my team is pushing as hard as they can to find performance."

Verstappen continued, "It's just very complicated for these cars. But at the same time, we need to find more performance, of course, as the leading team. We have less time in the wind tunnel. I'm not using that as an excuse because I don't want to think like that, but the reality is that we have less time, and we try to do the best we can."

Early season problems for Verstappen?

Since a couple of race weekends, Red Bull's problems have really come to the fore. When asked if he has been experiencing them all year, Verstappen replied, "I think it's two things, because at the beginning of the year, I felt actually really good with the car, it was probably even more natural than the year before for me to drive the car, which was a positive thing. But then I would say after a few races with, of course, the competition probably also closing up, we just had weekends which were a bit messy and a bit difficult to find the sweet spot, where in the first few races we didn't really have a lot of issues and everything just seemed to click a bit more naturally."

This article was written in collaboration with Olly Darcy