“We are not running optimally,” Helmut Marko ” disappointed with Red Bull’s poor run in FP2
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Helmut Marko the Red Bull team adviser after today’s FP 2 session has indicated that he was not happy with the performances of his drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez and also delved into the fact that the team was not able to find a decent balance on their RB18 throughout the session.
Max and Sergio were struggling with set-up issues throughout the session and Marko indicated that his drivers also complained about understeer and oversteer.
While talking about Red Bull’s Friday practice, Marko said, “We are not running optimally.”
However, despite the problems that the team faced today, the 79-year-old is highly confident that the team can sort its issues overnight so that the team can have a smoother FP3 session and the crucial Qualifying session for Sunday’s Grand Prix.
At the end of the FP2 session, Carlos Sainz was at the top of the timing sheets with a time of 1.28.942 seconds whereas Max was able to get up to P4 and was only +0.207 seconds behind the Spaniard.
The Dutchman’s decent outing despite having some issues has given the Milton-Keynes team hope going into tomorrow’s FP3 session.
Helmut Marko feels Friday could have gone better for the team
Helmut Marko is someone who has been associated with the sport for many years and feels that Red Bull could have done better as a team despite the setbacks they faced during FP2.
During the session, Perez and Verstappen complained about hearing strange noises from their cars, and later it was found out that the noise in the Dutchman’s case was coming from the updated floor that he was running. However, the team was not able to identify whether the noise on Sergio’s car was also caused because of the same problem, it is something they will find out overnight.
Marko while talking about the noise from Verstappen’s car said, “It came from the bodywork, something hit it.”
The Austrian did not give any more details about the problem but assured everyone that it was nothing too serious to be worried about.
Red Bull has got a big task cut out for them at Silverstone as Ferrari and Mercedes have looked strong in terms of pace and it is will be interesting to see how the two RB18s are going to perform when it all matters and that is during tomorrow’s Qualifying session for the British Grand Prix.
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