Laurent Mekies says Max Verstappen never makes mistakes

Immediately aft the triumph successful Qatar, Laurent Mekies highlighted the fantabulous enactment of the full team, some Red Bull and Max Verstappen himself. According to him, though their RB21 car was not consistently faster than McLaren passim the weekend, the determination to pit aboriginal nether the information car was important to the victory.

The triumph came acknowledgment to that precise determination successful the seventh round; portion the McLaren drivers stayed connected the track, Verstappen entered aboriginal and gained a important advantage. 

"It was different large telephone from our strategy squad present and the squad successful Milton Keynes. From that infinitesimal on, Max didn't marque a azygous mistake. He drove 2 unthinkable stints, looked aft his tires and successfully built a lead," said Mekies.

Meanwhile, McLaren did not instrumentality the accidental to telephone astatine slightest 1 car nether the information car. Pirelli rules bounds the usage of tires to 25 laps, and the contention had 57, which made the concern adjacent much difficult. “We were 4 oregon 5 tenths behind, which was painful,” admitted Mekies; “but everyone successful the mill and connected the way kept moving and looking for settings to adjacent the gap. We expected McLaren to beryllium beardown connected this track. There are a batch of long, medium-speed corners and it’s territory wherever they’ve beaten america earlier – deliberation Zandvoort and Budapest.”

The contention and the pace

In the end, the spread narrowed; successful qualifying 2 to 2 and a fractional tenths, and successful the contention adjacent closer. This prevented McLaren from gaining capable of an vantage to safely exit the pits, which allowed Verstappen to execute his program to the end. 

“He ne'er makes a mistake. He doesn’t miss the start, helium doesn’t miss the archetypal country and helium gets the astir retired of the tyres much than most. The squad has done incredibly well-executed races, and arsenic overmuch arsenic we’ve benefited from different people’s atrocious decisions, fto maine accidental that we haven’t made a mistake successful a agelong time,” added Mekies.

Before the final, Max is 12 points down Lando Norris and 4 up of Oscar Piastri. Even if helium wins successful Abu Dhabi, the rubric is acold from certain, but the information that helium is successful head-to-head contention aft trailing by much than 100 points earlier speaks volumes for his tenacity and the team's ability.