Red Bull has "been looking at what went wrong" at the Red Bull Ring, claims Verstappen
Ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix, four-time F1 world champion Max Verstappen has revealed that the Milton Keynes-based outfit has "been looking at what went wrong" at last weekend at the Red Bull Ring.
Although Max Verstappen wasn’t quite able to take the top spot across practice, he looked fairly competitive in the third and final practice on Saturday.
However, the Dutchman was unable to challenge for top places in qualifying, complaining about the overall balance of his RB21. In Q3, the reigning champion appeared to be in contention for P5 on the grid, but he was forced to abort his final flying lap due to yellow flags brought out for a spin by Pierre Gasly.
Although Verstappen had been expected to bounce back from his disappointing result in qualifying, the Dutchman's race ended after just three corners. The reigning champion's Red Bull was tagged by the Mercedes of Andrea Kimi Antonelli at Turn 3, with the incident forcing Verstappen to retire from the action.
The incident left Yuki Tsunoda as the only Red Bull driver out there. The Japanese driver started from P18 after a disappointing qualifying session on Saturday.
Tsunoda collided with Stroll early on as he tried to barge past the Canadian, which the stewards decided was a racing incident. However, the Red Bull driver had another collision with Alpine's Franco Colapinto for which he received a 10-second time penalty.
The collision forced Tsunoda to pit for a new front wing, and the long stop dropped Tsunoda down the back of the field on a day where P10 looked possible.
Ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix, the reigning champion has revealed that the Milton Keynes-based outfit has "been looking at what went wrong" at last weekend at the Red Bull Ring.
"Austria was a weekend to forget; we were pretty unlucky and it was not the result that we wanted. However, we want to come back stronger and hopefully can analyse and find more pace in the car so we can be more competitive to head into another Team home race.
"We have been looking at what went wrong over the weekend and will do everything we can to keep pushing forward as a Team. Silverstone has lots of high-speed corners which are hard to overtake and it is a track with lots of history.
"It is always a busy one for us, with lots of events going on, but it is nice for the Team to be close to home this weekend. You never know what the weather might bring so we will see what happens."
