Max Verstappen delivers “very tricky” verdict as McLaren lead 1-2 in Belgian GP practice
Max Verstappen reflects on a "very tri🔯cky" day for Red Bull at the Belgian Grand P✅rix.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen has conceded it’s been “very tricky to find the right balance” after trailing both McLarens in Friday F1 practice at the Belgian Grand Prix.
McLaren headed a 1-2 in FP2 at Spa-Francorchamps with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris 0.2s clear of teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri.
It was an impressi🌄ve turn of performance from McLaren, at a circuit they struggled at in dry conditions 12 months ago.
Red Bull looked domina✅nt in first practi🤡ce after Verstappen set the pace by 0.5s.
Reflecting on the day’s running, he said: “We tried quite a few things because it’s typically Spa. You have the sector one, sector three, where you want the t🦄op speed but a long middle sector where you want the corner speed.
“Very tricky to find the right balance. We’re t🐲rying a few things to see what’s better. W☂ill look at it now, analyse it. We started off quite positive today.
“Second practice wasn’t as good. We have a few ♛things to look at with all the changes that we made as well.”
Ver🍸stappen’s task will be made significantly more difficu𒁏lt as he serves a 10-place grid penalty for an engine change.

Unsurprisin♚gly, Verstappen has his eyes set on the race in terms of any changes.
“Hopefully we can all put it togetꦆher for the race especially because I have to start a bit back with the penalty for the engine.” he added. “Try to optimise.
“Naturally, of course, you always want a good qualifying but the most im🔯portant is the race so that’꧋s what we will focus on.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez was off the pace, 1.1s off Verstappen.
Giving his view on the day, he said: “We’ve been playing around [witܫh the setup]. We’ve been doing some stuff with it. We just haven’t been able to fully eౠxtract everything out of it.
“I 🔜think we got plenty of information. Both cars were quite different so I think we’veꦡ got a lot to go through for tomorrow.
“Although the tarm🐽ac is quite different the degradation seꦕems quite extreme.”
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