Red Bull problem new to Max Verstappen who has 'never experienced it before'

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Red Bull problem new to Max Verstappen who has 'never experienced it before'
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Max Verstappen was only seventh quickest in Italian Grand Prix qualifying as he struggled with his Red Bull car, while Lando Norris and McLaren are piling on the pressure

Max Verstappen said he has never before experienced the shifts in performance he felt during qualifying at Monza in his entire Formula 1 career.

To make matters worse, Verstappen 's nearest challenger in the drivers' championship is on pole. Lando Norris is in the strongest form of his F1 career and McLaren have given both him and Oscar Piastri cars in which they are capable of challenging on a weekly basis. He said: "For whatever reason in Q3 I picked up a lot of understeer on both tyre sets and this is something that I don't understand at the moment. It was just not drivable anymore. I couldn't attack any corner, so that's something that is very weird.

Team-mate Sergio Perez was closer to Verstappen than usual, because of the Dutchman's struggles, though he was still slower than his team-mate and lines up alongside him on the fourth row in eighth place. He felt Red Bull's decision not to bring a specific rear wing to Monza may have been an error.

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