Max Verstappen dissects his season so far and looks ahead to 2020
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It has been a mixed season for Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing. They have performed consistently well but have had a few disasters at a number of Grand Prix's. They have shown that they have the pace to win races and need to make just a few slight improvements to really challenge for the title next season.
Verstappen reflects on what has been a mixed season.
“When you look back after the summer break, we were also very competitive in Monza, which you wouldn’t expect,” Verstappen said to RaceFans. “So it was not all that bad.
“But of course, we also had to take engine penalties. So starting from the back the best you really could do was fifth and then, of course, it doesn’t look like an amazing result.”
“Then Suzuka was always going to be a bit of a tricky one because you can nail the set-up for qualifying or not, and then immediately it can be a big difference,” he continued. “And I was not very happy with the set-up we had in qualifying so it didn’t look amazing.
“But still I had a good start, was virtually in [third], but then I got taken out of course. That would have been a nice result as well for us.”
Red Bull know what it takes to succeed and will use these last two races of the season to start their preparation for a bid at the title for 2020.