2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg is baffled by Purple Bull’s woes with its second seat alongside Max Verstappen. According to this, Rosberg gave a robust take after Saturday’s qualifying session on the iconic Autodromo Nazionale Monza racing circuit.
In qualifying, Max Verstappen put his RB21 on pole place with a scintillating lap of 1:18.792 in Q3. His teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, was additionally capable of put his challenger in tenth place, however was manner behind Verstappen when it comes to lap time. The previous’s greatest Q3 lap was solely a 1:19.519.
Over time, Max Verstappen has gotten the higher of a number of drivers as his teammates, and apart from Tsunoda, he additionally had the higher hand on Liam Lawson, Pierre Gasly, and Alex Albon (all three are on the 2025 grid with totally different groups) once they drove alongside him at Purple Bull.
According to Yuki Tsunoda’s struggles in qualifying in Monza and the way a lot, over time, the Milton Keynes-based group has struggled with the second automobile alongside Verstappen, Nico Rosberg mentioned the next by way of Planet F1:
“That’s inexplicable — like I don’t perceive, as a result of Yuki is nice. He is aware of methods to drive a racing automobile. How is it doable he’s simply to date behind as soon as once more? It’s loopy that they’ll’t discover a resolution to that.”
The 2025 F1 season is 15 rounds down, and Max Verstappen is at the moment sitting in third place (205 factors) within the drivers’ standings. His teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, however, is down in P19 with solely 12 factors.
Max Verstappen’s tackle ‘implausible’ pole place in Monza
Purple Bull has not been capable of present Max Verstappen with the instruments to constantly battle for pole positions and Grand Prix wins within the 2025 season. Nonetheless, the RB21 has regarded respectable in Monza when it comes to tempo.
On the again of this, Verstappen secured a robust pole (as talked about earlier) and added the next by way of the post-session interviews:
“Q3 felt good, pleased with the laps and to be on pole right here is implausible. The automobile has been working nicely right here the entire weekend and to have the ability to battle for pole I’m very completely happy.” (Through The Guardian)
“We had been nonetheless missing a tiny quantity, we made some remaining adjustments which allowed me to push a bit extra, which is strictly what you want in qualifying. For us it’s an incredible second.”
In regard to the fast-approaching 2025 Italian GP, he added the next:
“Traditionally this season the race has all the time been extra sophisticated for us however we’ll give it every part we now have. That’s all we will do and we’ll see what occurs.”
Making an allowance for every part that has been mentioned, a number of eyes can be on the #1 Purple Bull challenger within the 53-lap race.
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