Imola’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix confirmed Purple Bull is making progress with its 2025 Method 1 automobile, however Max Verstappen would not consider the staff’s type will carry over to this weekend’s race in Monaco.
Verstappen was pipped to pole final weekend in Italy, however handed polesitter Oscar Piastri initially earlier than comfortably controlling the race. Beneath him was a Purple Bull that was a lot stronger on tyre administration than it had been beforehand, whereas the McLarens seemed much less spectacular than anticipated.
Imola noticed the introduction of Pirelli’s softest C6 compound, with its ordinary C5 tyre designated as a medium and subsequently used within the race. That tyre allocation stays in place for Monaco’s tight and twisty road circuit, the place tyre put on shall be much less of a limiting issue.
However Verstappen warns that Purple Bull nonetheless is not totally on high of its weak spot using over kerbs and bumps, that are plentiful across the Principality. The shortage of high-speed corners, he fears, will give McLaren a leg up on the competitors.
“Imola has given us some good concepts about what we’d like from the automobile, however right here it is a very completely different observe. You’ll be able to’t set the automobile up such as you did in Imola as a result of it could bounce in all places,” Verstappen informed Dutch-language media on Thursday, together with Motorsport.com.
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“This observe continues to be not optimum for us. I feel everyone knows that. You’ll be able to see this season that we might be aggressive each time we go to tracks with high-speed corners, however the remaining is tougher. Should you have a look at Imola, you can nonetheless see that the slowest corners weren’t our strongest on that observe. We all know that this observe is not for our automobile and that’s nonetheless the identical.”
Purple Bull’s weak spot over bumps and kerbs was notably obvious in Monaco final 12 months, with Verstappen solely managing sixth on the grid behind automobiles from three completely different groups, and ending a processional race in the identical place.
Now, he says he would not really feel that Purple Bull made vital strides in addressing the problems over the winter break.
“To be sincere, it hasn’t felt too completely different to date in comparison with final 12 months,” Verstappen mentioned about the important thing Purple Bull weak spot.
“However in fact, we’re nonetheless looking for some issues with the setup as properly, to make the automobile a minimum of a bit extra driveable on tracks like this.
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“In the intervening time, it is exhausting to say. We have to wait and see how we begin the weekend tomorrow, together with the sensation within the automobile. However like I mentioned, it gained’t be straightforward, that is for positive.”
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