Convenient coincidence?
Max Verstappen dismissed the suggestion that Red Bull designed the RB19 entirely to his wishes as ‘bullshit’. However, according to Red Bull’s technical director, there is an important coincidence that makes Verstappen and the RB19 such a top combination.
Max Verstappen is at a lonely height in Formula 1 this year and even teammate Sergio Pérez cannot come close to him despite the same material. According to critics, the latter is because Red Bull designed the car entirely according to Verstappen’s wishes. With such comments they seem to want to put Verstappen’s performance in a slightly different light. Not surprisingly, Verstappen wants to correct that. He stated according Motorsport that he simply asks Red Bull to make the fastest car and then ‘he will drive around it’.
Technical director Pierre Waché explains in an interview with GPFans However, Verstappen does have certain wishes that work in favor of the development of the RB19. According to Waché, Verstappen wants a car with a ‘sensitive front’. Most drivers want a little more feeling at the rear and Verstappen also wants the car to be very sensitive in the first place. “It’s a bit easier to find performance in the front of the car. It opens the door for us to make the car faster, because it has the capacity and also the preference to have a very sensitive front,” said Waché .
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