Unfamiliar feelings of gloom washed over the Red Bull camp after Formula 1's Friday practice sessions at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, as Max Verstappen was 'severely off the pace'.
Finding a remedy to the team's situation, where it seemed to struggle for a cadence over the kerbs and through the second sector of the Imola circuit, was going to test the team's usual overnight work heading into Saturday. Both the trackside and factory divisions at Red Bull had to get their hands dirty to decipher the root cause of Verstappen and Sergio Perez's problems throughout Friday, burning the midnight oil to find something that would rescue its weekend.
Verstappen likes his cars to tend towards oversteer, and has excellent control on the throttle and brakes to balance the rear end out, but he was not a fan of the car being so skewed towards its front wheels in FP2 - and was worried that the rear was going to buckle. Perez was more specific on where the issues lay with the RB20, having gone through the rigamarole himself of struggling with a car outside of its natural set-up habitat.
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