Marko Hanželic
It is error, which will cost this year's championship? This is a question we do not yet know the answer to, but it is clear that it is Dutchman greatly hampered his work on the narrow and demanding lane along the Red Sea coast. Let's remember Verstappen was on his way to a surprising pole position, as he was much faster than his main rival, but in the last, 27th bend, made a mistake and hit the guardrail when exiting the bend.
"I drove into a bend and I felt like I was braking in the same place as always," he explained after the qualifications Verstappen. “But the bikes were obviously blocked. Of course, I was still trying to finish the round, but I hit the wall and I couldn't continue. "
Verstappen he achieved a good time in the first attempt of the third part of the qualifications, but he did Hamilton overtook by 142 thousandths of a second. In the last attempt, he was significantly faster. "It seemed like a round of the year," says the team boss Red Bull, Christian Horner. According to the team, Verstappen was four tenths of a second ahead of his (so far) best time when entering the last corner, which according toHelmut Mark "On this path for all eternity."
Verstappen he wants to review the footage again to see if he braked too late in the last corner, triggering a wheel lock. "My feeling is no," says and adds: "Everything was fine until then. It was really fun. It is a great disappointment for me not to be able to get to the end, especially now that things are being decided. ”
In addition to the lost position field for the Dutchman, things could get worse before the race. In the worst case, the collision could damage the transmission on his car. If we had to at Red Bullu replace the gearbox would be Verstappen punished with five starting places and would start the race only with eighth starting position.
