🗣️ 'I've crashed cars before in the pitlane, but not in F1' Max Verstappen has brushed off his pitlane wall tap in BritishGP qualifying and blamed it on understeer ⬇️
who took pole for the race having pipped home favourite Lando NorrisIt emerged that on exiting his pit garage, Verstappen had not been able to filter out into the fast lane without making contact with the opposite wall and broke off the left hand side of his front wing.
Recapping a frantic Q1, Verstappen explained that it was very difficult to spot the grippy sections of the circuit - and that his broken front wing occurred as he understeered out of the pit garage. "I had a bit of understeer out of the box, 'too much' rear grip. I had to take a new front wing, but that meant of course, that I was in the back to start that final run.
"When I arrived to Turn 15 the first time I just went straight off, I couldn't see [the wet parts]. It was very weird because Turn 15 and 16, they were a bit damp and it was very difficult to see where exactly, you could only really feel it.
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