2023-06-20 03:54:35
Verstappen Canadian GP suffers bird strike and remains stuck on car
Red Bull Racing has revealed the remains of Max Verstappen’s bird hit in the Canadian G remained stuck in his car for almost the entire race.
The reigning world champion radioed to the team on lap 11 of the 70-lap race at Gilles Villeneuve that he had hit a bird on the exit of a corner. Still, Verstappen’s car did not appear to have been damaged, nor did he report any loss of performance.
However, when his RB19 was returned to the garage for post-race inspections, the Red Bull team found the remains of the bird around the right front brake duct. Team principal Christian Horner said: “I think the most serious situation he encountered in this race was hitting the bird, and its remains were stuck behind the right front brake duct for most of the race.”
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Verstappen himself revealed that he found the remains of the bird as soon as he got out of the car, telling Sky TV: “When I got back into the box it was still stuck in my car and it looked bad! Sorry for its removal.”
Regardless of the bird incident, the biggest headache for Verstappen in the Canadian GP was clearly tire temperature management. Due to the low ambient temperature, all drivers find it difficult to raise the tire temperature to the optimum operating range.
Horner added: “It’s hard for them to get the tires up, the track has only six corners and a long straight, it’s not easy to generate energy. You can see that the lap times of all the drivers are quite inconsistent at any given point in time. .”
“But Max was able to get out of the DRS range at the start and open a good gap before the safety car. And following the safety car, he opened the gap once more to regarding 10 seconds. This type of track It’s very unique, so it’s inspiring to pass this challenge.”
Verstappen himself said that the biggest problem for the Canadian GP is not to take care of the tires, but how to maintain the performance of the tires. He said: “Usually it is to take care of the tires so that they do not deteriorate, right? But today it is more obviously Putting the temperature of the tires together, sometimes the lap time fluctuates a lot.”
“Sometimes you really can’t push to the limit because you don’t know what’s going to happen. So for me it was harder on the hard tyres. And following that I switched to the medium tyres, and I wanted to close the gap once more. Expand a little bit.”
“And then of course, at some point, you see you have 10 or 15 laps left in the race, and you’re maintaining a decent gap, so you don’t want to take too much risk, maybe not pushing as hard as you can, but you can’t go too far either. Relax too much, or the tire temperature will drop.”
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