Max Verstappen: Red Bull car has gone from dominant to undriveable

01.09.2024 - 20:52 breakingnews.ie

Max Verstappen believes it is “unrealistic” that he will be able to stop Lando Norris from winning the world championship after accusing Red Bull of his turning his title-winning machine into a “monster”.

Verstappen started seventh and made up just one position at Monza’s Temple of Speed on Sunday to allow Norris, who crossed the line in third, to eat into his championship lead.

Norris has taken 16 points out of Verstappen in the last two races, and now trails the Dutchman by 62 points with eight rounds still remaining.

Norris’s McLaren team are also just eight points behind Red Bull in the constructors’ standings. “At the moment both championships are not realistic,” said Verstappen after Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix. “We have to keep working and push flat-out.

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Red Bull teammates Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez have played tug-of-war for supremacy at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in recent years. Pérez won the race in 2021, Verstappen snatched it back in 2022, and Pérez returned to the winner's circle last season. The pair will duke it out again this week as Formula 1 returns to Baku. Verstappen looks to retain his stranglehold on the top spot in the 2024 drivers' championship standings. The three-time defending champion has a 62-point lead on Lando Norris with eight races to go. Pérez sits in seventh place.

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