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Vegas nightmare for Verstappen as Pink Bull convey improper wing
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Vegas nightmare for Verstappen as Pink Bull convey improper wing

By Miles Cooper November 22, 2024
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Vegas nightmare for Verstappen as Pink Bull convey improper wing

Max Verstappen’s hopes of clinching a fourth consecutive drivers’ world championship on the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend took a dent on Friday when Pink Bull revealed they introduced the improper rear wing.

In an interview with Auto Motor und Sport, the workforce’s senior advisor Helmut Marko mentioned Pink Bull have been shedding as much as six-tenths of a second on the principle straight, the Las Vegas Boulevard resulting in Caesars Palace, after a packing blunder.

“We don’t have one other rear wing, a smaller rear wing, as we see on our rivals,” mentioned Marko. “It will be extra useful, for positive.”

He added that it was too late for the workforce to rearrange for a extra applicable trimmed rear wing to be flown out to Las Vegas earlier than the race on Saturday night time.

Verstappen leads McLaren’s Lando Norris by 62 factors with three races remaining and wishes merely to complete forward of him in Las Vegas to turn out to be the sixth man to win 4 world championships.

The Dutchman, nevertheless, struggled in second apply on Thursday night time, ending seventeenth in slippery situations on the chilly, dry and dusty circuit across the streets of ‘Sin Metropolis’ the place the three-time champion gained final yr’s race.

Verstappen tried to make mild of the workforce’s error, in packing the improper rear wing, and blamed his wrestle on the slippery situations and issue with tyre temperatures.

“The difficulty for us is certainly tyre-related as we have now no grip and it appears like driving on ice,” he mentioned.

“We struggled to make the tyres work, particularly over one lap and we have been fairly far off with the tempo.”

Staff-mate Sergio Perez was nineteenth within the session topped by Mercedes’ seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton forward of Norris of McLaren, who mentioned on Wednesday it’s “in all probability too late” to cease Verstappen taking the title.

“There have been flashes of velocity,” mentioned Marko. “We simply need to get consistency into it. On the only lap we are able to enhance however on the long term, the tyre put on is an issue in the intervening time.”

He added that situations might change in favour of Pink Bull earlier than the race.

“Tomorrow is a unique day,” he mentioned. “You see it plenty of instances. Individuals will likely be quickest on Friday, or Thursday, nevertheless it doesn’t suggest that they’re quick within the race. We’ll, for positive, make an affordable step.”

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