Max Verstappen’s overtake on Lando Norris at first of the Dutch Grand Prix left Pink Bull with “no phrases”.
Verstappen completed second in entrance of his house crowd on the Dutch Grand Prix after capitalising on a late retirement for championship hopeful Norris, who suffered an oil leak in his McLaren with eight laps remaining.
4-time world champion Verstappen had been working third for a lot of the race however did handle to separate the McLaren drivers early on with a daring transfer on the opening lap, having opted to start out on tender tyres.
Verstappen almost misplaced management of his RB21 with a slide at Flip 2, however gathered his automobile and nonetheless managed to drag off the overtake on Norris, one thing which raised eyebrows at Pink Bull.
“I let you know what, on the pit wall lap one, as a lot as we work with him day-after-day, we have been nonetheless amazed by what he managed to place up,” Pink Bull crew principal Laurent Mekies mentioned.
“In order that’s the way it was. It was like, ‘how did he try this? And the way did he make the transfer? And the way did he preserve it on observe?’.
“It is a bit like in Spa when he obtained the McLaren on the dash begin. He knew he had one shot. He knew it was now. And he gave all of it. And he nonetheless leaves us with no phrases once you see that. So, large nicely carried out.
“Taking a look at Max, and the way in which he manages his personal race, with all the eye, with all of the stress he has right here, you possibly can nonetheless see he is very, very calm.
“He has a really well-structured option to strategy the weekend. From that perspective, it was no more hectic, neither, I hope, for him, nor for the crew. We simply obtained good vitality from the followers.”
Verstappen celebrated second place on house soil
Max Verstappen brushes off ‘little second’
Verstappen defined the scary first-lap second from his perspective after the race.
“I attempted to ship it into Flip 3, however sadly, there was an excessive amount of sand in Flip 2 from the center of the observe to the skin,” the Dutchman mentioned.
“I knew that we had the softer compounds, so I attempted to make it work on that first lap.
“It wasn’t straightforward. I gave it all the things at first to maneuver ahead. Slightly second in Flip 2.
“However after that, we simply needed to do our personal race. Sadly, we did not have the tempo of the McLarens. Then we obtained a bit fortunate with one retiring.
“However usually, to be on the rostrum right here is a good end result. So to be in second, I feel it is a actually, actually good achievement for us.”
