Here are the words of Max Verstappen at the end of the particolare day of Saturday of the Dutch Grand Prix 2023 to the microphones of sky sports f1.
Max Verstappen, the Lion King
At the end of a day in which everything happened, theFlying Dutchman comments on his success in Saturday of the Dutch GP. A success that led him to equal the record of three pole positions in Zandvoort now in ex aequo with René Arnoux (1979, 1980, 1982) in one of its two home games. We remember, in fact, that Max è Belgian on mother's side and Dutch on the father's side. They were: “very complicated qualifications. We started with the intermediate, but with a new asphalt which was really very slippery. So we had to put together the tour, but also stay out out of trouble. In the end we succeeded to manage everything well and put on dry tires and there was a dry line in some places. There was still some risk, but the last lap was really very pleasant."
That right mistake
Max Verstappen therefore comments on Red Bull's decision to fit intermediate tires when the track was almost dry. His choice surprised many and Max contested it on the radio. "Yes why we have already seen in some wet races and in others this conditions, but , here and the first time that we encountered these conditions. ” In fact, under such conditions, this is truly unusual behavior. As the track dries out, especially quickly, all the teams tend to put soft tires on their cars. For which we perhaps underestimated the situation a little even with the wind and the sun coming out. Above all the speed with which the track dried. Anyway that mistake didn't count for anything because we did the right thing“. Mistakes that, to date, only Red Bull can afford.
