Red Bull's Max Verstappen shows new patience at Bahrain Grand Prix despite frustration

Max Verstsappen’s palpable dissatisfaction with his Red Bull team’s efforts at Bahrain should not be a source of worry despite a pointless start. It appears that a fuel pump problem was responsible for the twin disappointment experienced by Verstappen and his team-mate Sergio Perez in their dramatic, late failures. Vertsappen managed to get to lap 54 before he was forced to protect his car from further damage, while Perez was not given that limited blessing — he simply seized up on a corner on the final lap.

Ad/> When the trouble struck the Dutchman, he was clearly unhappy. Unsurprisingly so. ‘What the f*** is this?!’ he exclaimed over the team radio, with those back in the pit unwilling to clarify what the bother was, save to say it was not the battery was at fault.

All they could offer was slightly embarrassed instructions to pit when he had been in second just moments before. It was, though, not the first time he had lost his patience with his setup, and those trying to help him from the paddocks. Formula 1‘It shouldn’t happen’ — Verstappen frustrated with Red Bull faults4 HOURS AGO Earlier he had been complaining that instructions to take it easy on his tyres on his out lap had cost him the chance to overtake Charles Leclerc not just once, but twice.

He felt — whether it was accurate or not — that it was other factors than his driving which had cost him points. Indeed, he was clear after the race that he thought the crucial faults that forced him to retire were unacceptable at this level of racing: “It shouldn’t happen.” Going further back, it had only taken a handful of laps for him to worry that his tyres weren’t giving him enough traction, and that his «engine breaking» was causing him trouble in the corners. It