Max Verstappen says this year's Red Bull RB19 is 'definitely an improvement' over the car with which he won last year's F1 title.
Max Verstappen says the new Red Bull RB19 Formula 1 car is an improvement on its predecessor and stressed that more performance is"in the pipeline".The new car has looked comfortably fast from the start of testing on Thursday, and it has also run with few apparent issues, although Verstappen lost some track time on Friday.on Friday before the Mexican was its sole occupant on Saturday.
"I think the car is working really well," said Verstappen."Just going through a lot of things that we wanted to try, and everything is very interesting, what we have been trying.Verstappen noted the car feels different to drive compared with the RB18. "There are quite a few differences in the cars," he said."So it definitely drives a bit different. I think that's also a bit related to the tyres. But overall, I think it's definitely an improvement from last year.
"The main issue we had last year is that the car was massively overweight. So in the beginning, the car was just very lazy it was not turning in, because the weight was also in the wrong place on the car."And throughout the year we got rid of that, and you could see the performance of course was increasing a lot and it became more of a race car.
"And this year, just a continuation, but also things that we found and put on the car that were clearly better. And yeah, we already have things in the pipeline coming, and just work in progress. But we know what our limitations are. And we work around this."
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