Pink Bull has struggled to seek out efficiency all weekend on the Marina Bay observe, and after a set-up change made issues worse for qualifying, the Dutchman couldn’t higher eleventh place.
Chatting with his staff as he drove again to the pitlane he mentioned that the session had been “a stunning expertise”.
He then confronted investigations into three impeding incidents, together with one within the pitlane, rising with two reprimands however no grid penalties.
Verstappen made it clear that from eleventh he doesn’t assume he can win Sunday’s race.
“You’ll be able to overlook about that,” he mentioned when requested if he may battle for victory. “You’ll be able to’t go. On different tracks you can begin final, I imply in all probability in Spa you can begin final and win the race, however not right here.
“Right here you could be two or three seconds sooner to have an opportunity to go. And in order that’s simply road circuit stuff.”
Verstappen acknowledged that it was extra vital to know why the staff struggled in Singapore fairly than fear about ending his successful streak.
“I knew that there was a day that you simply’re not successful anymore,” he mentioned. “But additionally we had a extremely good run anyway, up till now.
“I’d at all times take a season like we’re successful this a lot and having one actually dangerous weekend over the opposite approach round, the place you are not combating for the championship, and you then’re successful right here.
Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing RB19
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“However I believe it is extra vital that we simply perceive what we did fallacious this weekend. As a result of I am assured that subsequent week we go to Suzuka, and the automotive is quick once more.
“It already felt like that additionally within the simulator that this was a tough set-up window for the automotive, then we went to Suzuka and it simply felt wonderful once more, like many of the races.”
Verstappen admitted {that a} change for qualifying had gone within the fallacious route.
“I believe really this morning, though FP3 was higher, we made some good progress,” he mentioned. “It was, in fact, nonetheless not the place we wish it to be. However it was trying like one thing.
“Then we made a couple of extra adjustments, which we thought the set-up, the automotive, would permit. Then we obtained into qualifying and the primary huge downside I had was that I could not brake late and exhausting as a result of I’d backside out and it could unload the entrance tyres.
“On a road circuit that’s one thing which may be very essential, to be assured on the brakes, and assault the corners. So I could not try this.
“Apart from that, additionally simply the low-speed corners, the place I believe we’ve been struggling already the entire weekend. I simply had no rear help.
“So I simply stored on like having mini slides, or in my last lap an enormous one in Flip 3. And when it is like that there isn’t any lap time.”
He added: “Clearly, we simply do not perceive that situation. In any other case, you do not make these sorts of adjustments and it is worse, so we have been clearly not understanding the automotive this weekend round this observe.”
