The Dutchman delivers Sunday at the start thereby ten places in which he probably started somewhere back of the field. His team-mate Carlos Sainz exchanged engine.
“The engine change will have a negative impact on their qualifying result, but makes it better to appear in the races to come hereafter,” let Phil Charles , the chief race engineer at Toro Rosso know.
“Both drivers thus get a grid penalty, but we remain positive. The good news is that long runs are not a bad look, and that we have many good tire data available, which can help us hopefully in the race. “
Verstappen was two weeks ago at the Grand Prix of Belgium also put back. The debutant in Formula 1 was then still pretty eighth. It is already his seventh engine change of the season.
Value
Verstappen does not attach much importance to his poor starting position. “So we have an additional engine for use in the rest of the season, ” he says Formule1.nl .
” We first have even looked at how it here went in free practice. If I top ten times, skated would have then we had not done for the purpose of qualifying, but now it does not matter. “
The ten place penalty Verstappen rises because of engine change bear him little worry. “There are many drivers with a grid penalty: the two McLarens, the Red Bulls and my teammate must also hand places. For the starting grid makes it ill from “
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Advantage
Because the engine change Sainz was announced before training, has Verstappen in any case there is a slight advantage: subject to the outcome of qualifying, he will start on the basis of the punishment before his teammate, who grid penalty for the engine change Thursday took all received.
“We’re going into qualifying not unnecessarily much drive,” Verstappen verklapte already “So I can save new tires for the race.”
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