In the second practice session of the Monaco Grand Prix, Max Verstappen lost more than four tenths of a second to the session leader Charles Leclerc. Red Bull Motorsport Consultant Helmut Marko explained what caused such a backlog from Ferrari.
“We lost too much to Leclerc on a fast lap,” Racingnews365 quotes Marco as saying. – On a long series of circles on tires Medium, we were clearly better, but we must solve the problem with the balance. The team experimented with the settings on Max’s car, but obviously went in the wrong direction.
In the first turn, our riders had problems with understeer, which then gave way to oversteer. After the first session, the balance of the car changed for the worse. Changing the settings didn’t make it better. We believe that our main problem lies in the first sector of the track.”