Max Verstappen sends message to the F1 world

Max Verstappen erstwhile again showed his people astatine the Interlagos track. He turned his commencement from the pit lane into 1 of the astir awesome comebacks of the season. Red Bull's attack and "never springiness up" mentality allowed him to instrumentality the podium successful a contention afloat of twists and turns. The Dutchman crossed the decorativeness enactment wrong 1 2nd of the second-placed Kimi Antonelli.

His play didn't get disconnected to an perfect start. On Friday, helium suffered his archetypal Q1 exit since Russia 2021. After that, Red Bull took him retired of parc ferme mode, which allowed for the installation of an all-new powertrain and extremist tuning changes to marque the car much competitive. 

That determination turned retired to beryllium superb – Verstappen passed done the file arsenic if determination was nary resistance, and adjacent an aboriginal level tyre did not halt him.

Subtitle: awesome comeback

He reached the decorativeness enactment astir imperceptibly, but with a immense pace, which tin beryllium seen from the effect - conscionable 1 2nd down Kimi Antonelli. Speaking to Sky Sports aft the race, Verstappen highlighted his team's approach:

"It's casual to accidental afterwards. I deliberation I similar the information that yes, it was hard for us, but the squad ne'er gives up."

"We ever privation to beryllium better. We don't settee for 2nd spot due to the fact that different aft a sprint you tin easy accidental 'let's not interaction the car, we're not bad, let's not instrumentality immoderate risks'. I don't deliberation that's the mentality of the team."

"We ever privation to effort to find much performance. It didn't wage disconnected successful qualifying, but it allowed america to alteration the car again and marque it a batch much competitory today."

"We're alert that it's a spot colder today. That astir apt helped america a bit, but overall, to travel from the pit lane to the podium, 10, 11 seconds disconnected the leader, with a level tire, I deliberation it's an unthinkable accomplishment for us."

The rubric contention is inactive tough, though. Lando Norris' triumph accrued the spread successful the drivers' standings to 49 points. There are inactive 3 expansive prix weekends and 1 sprint to spell until the extremity of the season. Verstappen admitted:

"We've already mislaid excessively galore points from the commencement of the play to the mediate of the season. If we've adjacent held connected to this point, that would person been a surprise. We person to beryllium realistic."

"I don't deliberation we've been bully capable passim the season, but we'll inactive effort to bash everything we tin until the extremity of the play to execute immoderate highlights and effort to triumph races. That's wherefore we're here."