Max Verstappen believes Friday practice ahead of the British Grand Prix “was quite a bad day” for himself and his Red Bull team, adding that they are lacking overall performance.<\/p>\n
The four-time and reigning World Champion could only finish both free practice sessions<\/a> at Silverstone in 10th and fifth, half a second off the leading benchmark each time.<\/p>\n The Dutchman sits 61 points behind Drivers’ Championship leader Oscar Piastri<\/a> approaching the halfway point of the season after been taken out on the opening lap in Austria by Kimi Antonelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n With McLaren<\/a> looking competitive this weekend, Lando Norris having topped FP2<\/a>, pressure has continued to mount on Verstappen and Red Bull<\/a> to find performance.<\/p>\n Verstappen<\/a> also faced fresh questions about his future with the team on Thursday, as rumours continue to circulate the he is looking to move to Mercedes in 2026, something Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner tried to dispel in Friday’s press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n “For me personally, was quite a bad day,” said Verstappen on his Friday running. “Just no balance in the car. Just very difficult to corner as well. Quite a poor day for us I think in general.<\/p>\n When asked how much the high and changeable wind conditions had impacted his performance, he added: “A lot but that’s of course not an excuse because everyone has to deal with that. It’s not easy but same for everyone.<\/p>\n “Every weekend is a different scenario. The wind around here, it seems our car is quite sensitive to it but in general it’s not been an easy day.”<\/p>\n Team mate Yuki Tsunoda endured another difficult Friday with the team and only got running in a single one-hour session, his RB21 seat having been taken by Red Bull Junior and F2 driver, Arvid Lindblad, in FP1.<\/p>\n Once back in the car for FP2, Tsunoda was only able to finish P15, half a second behind Verstappen and more than one second slower than Norris.<\/p>\n He said: “I just had one free practice session so a couple of things I can improve in my driving and set-up. Just have to optimise it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen believes Friday practice ahead of the British Grand Prix “was quite a bad day” for himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-238433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114797107244824185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}