Max Verstappen believes he could have 🌌challenged for pole position had he not encountered a turbo lag issue during British Grand Prix q🍌ualifying.

The Red Bull driver qualified fourth on the Silverstone grid and ended up just 0.183s adrift🐻 of polesitter Valtteri Bottas’ effort. Following qualifying, he reve🅠aled a power issue exiting corners hampered his performance and ultimately cost him further time.

“I honestly didn’t know w💟hat to expect in qualifying,” Verstappen said.

“My Friday and also this morning was not good, lacking stability and we managed to 💟find the stability from the car and it was alright.

“I kept having turbo lag coming out of the low speed corners, I had an issu🦄e with not the power I wanted to, so it didn’t pick up the throttle like I wanted, so we definitely lost a bit of laptime with that. But stiꦏll to be that close to pole is good.

“It’s just a shame because we lost a bit of time, otherwise I think 𝓰we could ꦍhave fought for pole.”

Asked to explain the issue, Verstappen replied: “It’s where the boost is kicking in. Normally we can [fine-tune it] but somehow todayꦍ🌟 we couldn’t.

“So all the time𓄧 when you go on the power, some of the corners aꦆre low RPM, there’s just a lag.

“You go on throttle and nothing is happening and then you✃ feel it ki🅷cking in. You lose performance, especially here.

“After the corners here there are long straights sღoꩲ you continuously lose [time].

“It’s💝 a completely different power unit so there are a lot of benefits but some things are just a bit different so it’s just a bit more fine-tuning but we normally get it right and you turn it around.”

Verstappen feels Red🙈 Bull’s 🔥impressive display was helped by finding a good compromise between cornering performance and straight-line speed.

“I think this weekend we found a goodꦛ compromise between cornering and straight-line speed,” he explained.

“If you look at our wing🅺 I think we are running a bit less than Mercedes. So we are not too far away on the straights here and somehow our car is working really well through the high-speed corners.

“For some reason last year, even when we trimmed the wing, it wa😼s not giving us that extra straight-line perform🥂ance.”