Max Verstappen has given his take on a \u201cvery difficult race\u201d at the British Grand Prix, with the Red Bull driver admitting that he had \u201cno pace\u201d on an afternoon that saw him recover to P5 following a spin at the second Safety Car restart.<\/p>\n
After lining up in pole position, Verstappen<\/a> initially led before being overtaken<\/a> by McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri<\/a> on Lap 8 of 52.<\/p>\n While a second Safety Car phase closed the gaps again \u2013 amid changing weather conditions \u2013 the Dutchman spun shortly after the restart, dropping him down the order.<\/p>\n From there Verstappen embarked on a recovery drive and crossed the line in fifth place<\/a>, while Lando Norris<\/a> took victory ahead of Piastri and Kick Sauber\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was just a very difficult race for us, but even after that spin I had no pace,\u201d the four-time World Champion conceded when reflecting on his race.<\/p>\n \u201cI was just stuck with that group and it was just very difficult to drive, and naturally of course we knew that it was going to be difficult in the wet with that [low downforce] rear wing that we had on the car.<\/p>\n \u201cBut even then I think we were still struggling a lot, and even also in the last few laps on the slick tyres were quite a handful to drive.<\/p>\n \u201c[It was] just very difficult. A few things to look at of course, but we were no match anyway with the McLarens, and on the other hand when we have a difficult day we try to of course collect the points. To see Nico on that podium, for me at least, it\u2019s nice to see.\u201d<\/p>\n In terms of what the approach would be going forward \u2013 after a weekend in which a strong Qualifying performance was followed by a tougher race day \u2013 Verstappen said: \u201cJust go to the next one.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have nothing to lose, nothing to gain \u2013 we are not in the fight for the championships, so we tried to just\u2026 see every race as a one-off and try to maximise everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has given his take on a \u201cvery difficult race\u201d at the British Grand Prix, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-244164","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\/114809591838427580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244164","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=244164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}