Fortunately, he learned from it and finally managed to do it last year.” When you have such a good car, you shouldn’t park it in the ditch. “That was the first time I saw Max in tears. Same corner, same place, while twice we had a car we could win with. “If we stay with Monte Carlo, he crashed there twice more later. “In Monte Carlo he had his first crash, he was a bit provoked there by Grosjean,” said Marko. Marko explained how Verstappen was reduced to tears as he put a car, possibly capable of winning, into the barriers, but said the main thing is he learned from the errors to become World Champion for the first time in 2021 after winning in Monaco. In 2018, an FP3 shunt ruled Verstappen out of qualifying and he ultimately finished the race P9. He had crashed out of qualifying the previous day also. Verstappen also crashed out in Monaco the following season, this time driving for the main Red Bull team.
Marko reflected on Verstappen’s first crash, which happened that season in Monaco – a heavy impact into the back of Romain Grosjean’s Lotus. “But everything went fine, Max was extraordinary in the first season.” “But you can’t demand everything right away,” Marko stated. Verstappen made the step up to Formula 1 as a full-time driver in 2015 with Toro Rosso, where he quickly showed his raw speed although some mistakes inevitably also crept in. “And at Suzuka we got confirmation of what I already knew – Max didn’t do anything wrong in that practice and was competitive from the first moment he stepped into a Formula 1 car.” But I believed that with him we had found someone who would become the new norm. “Suzuka was designed by a Dutchman, so a circuit for guys. “We made a conscious decision to throw Max into the deep end,” Marko told Formule 1.nl. Red Bull return from the summer break as hot favourites in both World Championship battles.Īnd indeed, his performance in that session, which he ended four tenths down on team-mate Daniil Kvyat, was vindication in Marko’s eyes for that decision to put Verstappen straight into the firing line. Unfortunately, as has been the story of McLaren’s season the Brit will start from the back of the grid for penalties incurred due to changes to elements of the power unit.Will Red Bull maintain their title momentum? And underlining the fact that the McLaren chassis is a handy one was stand-in driver Jenson Button who qualified in the top ten. Up until the trip into the barriers Vandoorne had delivered a wonderful performance in qualifying. While Stoffel Vandoorne was slated to start tenth despite clouting the barriers in Q2 the Belgian driver will drop three places on the grid thanks to a penalty incurred in the Spanish grand prix. Force India’s Sergio Perez, seventh, Haas’ Romain Grosjean, eighth, Daniil Kvyat, ninth, and Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg round out the top ten positions. The two Red Bull’s of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo rounded out the top five while Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz underlined his credentials with the sixth quickest time. While the Mercedes driver was caught out by yellow flags in the final sector of his last flying lap in Q2 the Brit had been struggling with setup for the majority of the weekend. Though Valtteri Bottas delivered with a fine third place Lewis Hamilton will start 13th after failing to advance beyond the second part of qualifying. While it was celebrations for Ferrari the Mercedes garage was not as joyful. Raikkonen’s pole position was the first in 128 races with his last coming ahead of the 2008 French grand prix. The Finnish driver took pole position with a quickest time of 1:12:178 ahead of teammate Sebastian Vettel to secure Ferrari’s second front-row lock out in three races. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen delivered a breathtaking lap to secure pole position for the 2017 Monaco grand prix.
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