Max Verstappen insists he is not concerned having lost yet more track time to what he called “small hiccups” with the Red Bull on Thursday.
After the snow and rain of the day before, the Milton Keynes outfit was the only team not to complete a program in the wet morning, instead, waiting until the track has dried in Barcelona before venturing out.
Looking to capitalise on the best conditions of the week in the afternoon, the Dutchman would suffer a minor problem which needed repairing before spinning into the gravel at Turn 12 and ending his test day 90 minutes early.
“These things happen and anyway the conditions this week were not great, so hopefully next week will be a bit more sunny,” Verstappen commented later.
“We had a leak, so we were just checking the whole car and everything was alright after that. It took a bit longer than expected but once we went out again I had a little moment in Turn 12 and then reversing something happened with the gearbox, we still need to investigate.”
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The pace of the RB14 has been solid when it has run, with teammate Daniel Ricciardo leading the timesheets on Day 1, as a result, the 20-year-old claims he has “no question-marks” over its potential.
“We had some little hiccups, but that can happen. You don’t want it to happen, but sometimes it can,” he said.
“[We were] checking a lot of things, the data, comparing it to the wind tunnel, and sometimes you need to really work on that as well, especially when the conditions are like this. I am alright, and I am positive.”
