“We all do something wrong, except McLaren”

Max Verstappen prepares for a difficult Miami prize despite defeating Lando Norris, his rival of McLaren in the battle for pole. The current world champion got his third pole of the season at the Miami International Autodrome on Saturday, defeating English by 65 thousandths and the rookie from Mercedes, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, by 67, in an exciting classification session in which Oscar Piestri finished fourth.

Previously, Verstappen won his position on the track in Suzuka to turn a pole victory, while in Saudi Arabia she was penalized for getting out of the track In the 1-2 curves to keep Piastri behind, which probably ended up costing another triumph from the first place of the grill.

Miami’s 57 laps race is expected to be another grand prize at a single stop, which It limits strategic options, but with a powerful DRS zone on the back straight, overtaking is not impossible.

However, the Dutchman felt that Saturday’s Sprint race, with the wet pass to dry, showed that The higher management of the McLaren tires will continue to be an important factor, with Piastri and Norris moving away from it with the intermediates when the track dried upremembering a similar situation at the beginning of the season in Melbourne.

“I think they are generally better in the race“Vastappen said.” That was also seen with intermediates in rain. As soon as the tires begin to overheat, they have a great advantage. Therefore, we are all doing something wrong with the tires, apart from McLaren“.

“What I have seen today in the rain has not been so good, McLaren has also been stronger. I think they are generally better now, so it will always be a difficult career. But at least we are in front of the grill and I hope we can make it difficult, “he continued.

Verstappen also indicated that carrying a Honda engine of greater mileage will not help you defend your leadership in the lines, admitting that “it makes the difference quite a lot this weekend.” However, at least the revised Red Bull floor, which only Verstappen tested this weekend, seems to have provided the increase in aerodynamic load that the team expected. But #1 felt that the real benefit will not become evident until later in the season, due to the uncomfortable curve profiles of Miami.

“In this circuit it is always very difficult to judge something, because everything seems very weird here, both in terms of grip and curves. I think we will know more when we go to Icola“The world tetra -champion explained, the next stop of the calendar being.

“We change some small things for classification and The car revolved a little better. That is positive, but obviously it is not yet what we want or where we want to be. But it really was better than expected. Before coming to Miami, we thought it would be a [gran premio] complicated, with slow curves and pianos that must be attacked. Normally it is not our strong point, “he concluded.