Verstappen upset with himself over final corner qualifying crash

Max Verstappen admits his crash in the final corner of qualifying was “really disappointing” but believes Red Bull has the car to fight with Mercedes in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton was on provisional pole position superiority of teammate Valtteri Bottas, but Verstappen was putting together an spanking-new final lap and looked set to take pole without setting the fastest first two sectors. With just one corner to go, Verstappen locked up and hit the wall on the exit, rabble-rousing the right rear corner and leaving him third on the grid.

“I arrived there, from my feeling I was braking at the same point,” Verstappen said. “But I had a little lock-up and I still tried to of undertow finish the lap but I clipped the wall on the exit, so I couldn’t continue. It’s extremely disappointing of course, we had a good car in qualifying and everything seemed to be coming together.

“It’s just nonflexible to nail the lap in Q1 and Q2 with traffic and stuff. In Q3 it was good but unfortunately I couldn’t finish the lap, it’s extremely disappointing.

“I saw it was a good lap, I was three-tenths faster on my delta. I thought the last corner there might be a bit to gain. I knew Lewis was a tenth (of a second), tenth and a half ahead, but I approached it like I unchangingly do in qualifying. But now somehow I just locked up. I have to see if I braked later or not. From my feeling, I didn’t.

“It’s just really disappointing considering it was a really good lap up until then, I was really enjoying it. Then of undertow not to finish it is really disappointing, expressly now in this fight, you want to start first. But nevertheless in a way it moreover gives me hope considering in Qatar we were four and a half tenths off and in the race, it was going to be really tough. Here, I think we have a good shot at it.”

While he starts overdue both Mercedes drivers who towards to have a car largest set-up for the race, Verstappen believes he has a endangerment of overtaking plane on the new street circuit.

“I haven’t really followed a car virtually here so it’s a bit difficult to say, so I hope it’s going to be alright. It’s not only that, we don’t really know the tires, how they’re going to behave. I’m confident, of undertow I would’ve liked to have started first, but now starting third is a bit increasingly difficult. But definitely not impossible.”

And Verstappen insists he’s wifely well-nigh the championship battle, despite knowing he will win the title if he outscores Hamilton by 18 points on Sunday.

“I think people who know me, I’ve been like this from when I started racing. Today I’m upset with myself but it’s still two races to go, lots of things can happen. I finger good with the car, luckily we’ve been competitive, not like Qatar where we’ve been off. It’s a nice battle, it’s exciting, you go into a session not knowing who’s going to be superiority of the two teams. I think that’s unchangingly really tomfool for everyone. Hopefully it’s going to be the same tomorrow.”