{"id":290836,"date":"2023-09-16T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=290836"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:22:43","slug":"max-verstappen-brands-the-handling-of-his-red-bull-car-unaceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/racing\/f1\/max-verstappen-brands-the-handling-of-his-red-bull-car-unaceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen brands the handling of his Red Bull car &apos;unaceptable&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Furious Max Verstappen says his Red Bull car is &#8216;unaceptable&#8217; ahead of Singapore Grand Prix qualifying, claiming &#8216;if I competed in drifting, I might win&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Max Verstappen has bemoaned the handling of his car as &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Red Bull driver is vying to win his 11th straight win at the Singapore GP<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He finished fourth in practice at the Marina Bay Circuit earlier this week\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Max Verstappen faces a fight to take pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix after calling his Red Bull &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; in final practice.<\/p>\n<p>As Carlos Sainz raced to the top of the time charts at the Marina Bay Circuit, Verstappen finished fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman is on an unprecedented 10-race winning streak with his Red Bull team unbeaten at the 14 rounds of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p>But Verstappen bemoaned the handling of his car in the city-state, describing the upshifts in his Red Bull machinery as &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;These upshifts, what the f***. I am just struggling for rear grip. If I competed in drifting, I might win the race.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/12\/75502035-12525725-image-a-29_1694865099499.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An unhappy Max Verstappen (pictured) has slammed the grip on his Red Bull car as &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/12\/75502071-12525725-image-a-33_1694865150993.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen is set to take part in qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix later this Saturday but finished fourth in practice earlier this week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/12\/75502083-12525725-image-a-35_1694865199064.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But he blasted his car stating &#8216;I am just struggling for rear grip. If I competed in drifting, I might win the race.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen returned to the track in the closing moments of the one-hour running, ringing the neck of his Red Bull to move from sixth to fourth, 0.313 sec slower than Sainz.<\/p>\n<p>But his struggles will give the chasing pack hope of finally stopping Verstappen and Red Bull with Ferrari holding the upper hand heading into qualifying later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc traded top spot in the two practice sessions here on Friday, with the former again fastest in the concluding running before the fight for pole.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/12\/75502073-12525725-image-a-34_1694865153030.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen (middle) is vying for his 11th straight win during the 2023 Formula 1 season\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc looked set to eclipse Sainz only to make a mistake in the second sector before backing out of his speediest lap, finishing fifth.<\/p>\n<p>George Russell took an encouraging second for Mercedes, just 0.069 sec slower than Sainz, with Lando Norris third in his McLaren. Lewis Hamilton was sixth for Mercedes, within half-a-second of Sainz.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen&#8217;s team-mate Sergio Perez, who won here last year, finished eighth, 0.719 sec back.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying for the 15th round of 22 takes place at 2100 local time (1400 BST) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12525725\/Singapore-Grand-Prix-Max-Verstappen-brands-handling-Red-Bull-car-unaceptable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furious Max Verstappen says his Red Bull car is &#8216;unaceptable&#8217; ahead of Singapore Grand Prix qualifying, claiming &#8216;if I competed in drifting, I might win&#8217; Max Verstappen has bemoaned the handling of his car as &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;\u00a0 \u00a0 The Red Bull driver is vying to win his 11th straight win at the Singapore GP He finished&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Max Verstappen brands the handling of his Red Bull car &amp;apos;unaceptable&amp;apos; 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