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Vegas nightmare for Verstappen as Pink Bull carry flawed wing
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Vegas nightmare for Verstappen as Pink Bull carry flawed wing

Motorsports November 22, 2024
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Max Verstappen’s hopes of clinching a fourth consecutive drivers’ world championship on the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend took a dent on Friday when Pink Bull revealed they introduced the flawed rear wing.

In an interview with Auto Motor und Sport, the staff’s senior advisor Helmut Marko stated Pink Bull have been shedding as much as six-tenths of a second on the principle straight, the Las Vegas Boulevard resulting in Caesars Palace, after a packing blunder.

“We don’t have one other rear wing, a smaller rear wing, as we see on our opponents,” stated Marko. “It might be extra useful, for positive.”

He added that it was too late for the staff to rearrange for a extra acceptable trimmed rear wing to be flown out to Las Vegas earlier than the race on Saturday evening.

Verstappen leads McLaren’s Lando Norris by 62 factors with three races remaining and desires merely to complete forward of him in Las Vegas to turn out to be the sixth man to win 4 world championships.

The Dutchman, nevertheless, struggled in second observe on Thursday evening, ending seventeenth in slippery situations on the chilly, dry and dusty circuit across the streets of ‘Sin Metropolis’ the place the three-time champion received final yr’s race.

Verstappen tried to make gentle of the staff’s error, in packing the flawed rear wing, and blamed his wrestle on the slippery situations and issue with tyre temperatures.

“The problem for us is unquestionably tyre-related as we have now no grip and it looks like driving on ice,” he stated.

“We struggled to make the tyres work, particularly over one lap and we have been fairly far off with the tempo.”

Group-mate Sergio Perez was nineteenth within the session topped by Mercedes’ seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton forward of Norris of McLaren, who stated on Wednesday it’s “most likely too late” to cease Verstappen taking the title.

“There have been flashes of pace,” stated Marko. “We simply must get consistency into it. On the only lap we will enhance however on the long term, the tyre put on is an issue for the time being.”

He added that situations could change in favour of Pink Bull earlier than the race.

“Tomorrow is a distinct day,” he stated. “You see it a variety of instances. Folks shall be quickest on Friday, or Thursday, nevertheless it does not imply that they’re quick within the race. We are going to, for positive, make an inexpensive step.”

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