Fraser MasefieldOne thing that even casual watchers of Formula One have learned over the past few years is Max Verstappen is a breed apart. A driver that excels when the pressure is on.
The Dutchman, now a four times consecutive F1 champion has written himself amongst the annals of greatness. And he has no intention of stopping now.
Having won the past two grands prix to put himself back within a fighting chance, there were times during the Singapore Grand Prix that he bemoaned a lack of balance. The rear brakes were playing havoc with his chances of race victory.
And that’s what the greats do. Second place is never good enough. Second is the first loser.
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“The track only just got dry and starting on the dirty side of the grid we had to try something different as normally if you are in the lead you just stay there,” commented Verstappen on Sky Sports. “So we tried, it didn’t really work out, so the first stint was really about surviving on the tyres and trying to make it long enough to pit for the hard tyre.
“I think that worked out but unfortunately the race was quite difficult, more difficult than I hoped for, for a lot of reasons. There are a few reasons we need to understand why these things went wrong today. But around here, even if you have more pace, you can’t pass without anything crazy happening, so I think second was the maximum result.”
SINGAPORE GP TECH TALK WITH CRAIG SCARBOROUGH
The Singapore GP offers one of the biggest tests for the drivers on the calendar for a variety of reasons. Because the race takes place at night, the drivers effectively have to adapt quickly back to European time and adjust their body clocks accordingly from the flight over from Baku.
That’s not all the drivers have to cope with. The extreme humidity and soaring cockpit temperatures mean the drivers have to take on plenty of fluid to compensate for the up to 3kg of body weight they can lose in the race.
Click here to read tech guru Craig Scarborough’s comprehensive guide to the mechanics and tech of the Singapore Grand Prix.
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