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Verstappen and Lambiase will speak to each other after heated team radios
- Corwin Kunst
The Belgian Grand Prix is the last one before the summer break. The fact that drivers and teams get a few weeks off is not a bad thing in the case of Red Bull Racing. Things have not really been going well at the Austrian racing stable in recent weeks, causing frustrations back and forth, which Helmut Marko agrees with. Max Verstappen and Gianpiero Lambiase, meanwhile, will discuss these radio messages later in the day.
"The atmosphere is a bit tense," Marko reveals in conversation with Kleine Zeitung just before the start of the fourteenth F1 weekend of the season. Not only have the results been a bit off in recent weeks, but internally at Red Bull, they had expected a bit more from the update rolled out at the Hungaroring. Add to this the fact that Sergio Perez has underperformed for several Grands Prix in a row and a disgruntled Max Verstappen.
Verstappen's dissatisfaction does not just stem from the fact that he was on a poor strategy in Hungary or that the biggest update so far did not save as much time as hoped. Even before the weekend in Budapest, the three-time world champion expressed that "some people need to wake up".
Verstappen and Lambiase
Back to that race last Sunday. Verstappen and Gianpiero Lambiase bombarded each other with comments that went down the wrong way with both of them. The Dutchman ignored his race engineer's instructions and vice versa, and Verstappen was accused of 'childish behaviour'. Marko says the air will be cleared between the two of them: "They will sit down together and talk it out," Marko said.
This article was written in collaboration with Olly Darcy