Verstappen not satisfied at Silverstone: 'Work to be done for Red Bull'

Max Verstappen did not finish the first day of the Silverstone Grand Prix weekend feeling satisfied. The Red Bull Racing driver fell a lot short of McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, suggesting that his team has quite a bit of work to do.

Verstappen finished the first and second free practice sessions on Friday in fourth and seventh place respectively. In the second practice session, the Dutchman finished behind his teammate Sergio Perez, who recorded the third fastest time. The championship leader therefore stressed that Red Bull must work hard to improve ahead of qualifying.

"A bit of work to do coming out of the first two practice sessions here in Silverstone," Verstappen began after the second free practice session. "On the soft tyre it didn’t go so well in FP2 and the medium tyre looked better. We also had a little slide in FP2 heading into Chapel so I ended up aborting the lap there."

"We tried a few things on the car between FP1 and FP2, so we’ll have to analyse everything and what we can do better ahead of Qualifying. Naturally I think the weather will impact things tomorrow with some rain to be expected and the whole grid will have to take that in to account with strategy," concluded the three-time world champion.