In an exclusive interview, world champion Max Verstappen has opened up on his early-season frustrations with the 2022 Red Bull. “A car cannot be fast with understeer. It’s impossible' F1
Early in 2022 Max Verstappen was struggling to get the oversteery car balance he enjoys due to the Red Bull being overweight.The combined problems left Verstappen unable to have the extremely pointy and nimble front end he prefers until Red Bull was able to get the RB18 under the weight limit and could apply ballast to load up the front axle and create Verstappen’s wilder, oversteer-happy approach.
Speaking to Motorsport.com in an exclusive interview, Verstappen explained how his driving style fitted in along with the requirements of the new ground-effects machines, with the understeer issue felt most when running on near-empty tanks in qualifying.“Being really overweight created an understeering balance and once we started to get rid of that, it started to be more agile again.
“Not just twitchy but more agile. You could really use the front end. At the end of the day, that’s also how you really drive a fast car.“Especially with the tyres we had this year being a bit more understeer limited as well. You cannot have a car like that.” When asked how he had adapted to work around the understeer issues – Verstappen would win six races in the season’s first half before the lightened RB18 really allowed him to produce his best from the summer onwards – he replied: “To be honest, most of it came from the weight.“[It was about] trying to learn the tyres, trying to really understand how we can preserve them better, which hasn’t been the easiest for sure.
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