Max Verstappen: “It was good to have a weekend off racing as we head right into a busy weekend in Miami!
“The Dash weekend right here is all the time fairly hectic and there may be all the time lot occurring. It’s an fascinating circuit and incorporates a vary of low and high-speed corners and off-camber sections. It’s all the time fairly sizzling right here and one of many extra bodily tracks, so we are going to see how we go. I am trying ahead to racing in Miami, there may be all the time a spectacle and an amazing environment with the followers. And hopefully we keep away from any bollards this 12 months!”
Yuki Tsunoda: “It is nice to be in Miami and as ever, it is set to deliver the warmth! I actually like coming to Miami, the eating places are nice and I really like the seashore, so it is a good combine between a really enjoyable life and a enjoyable one! I am studying how busy life as an Oracle Crimson Bull Racing driver could be and the Staff have stored me occupied off monitor this week with plenty of the enjoyable actions. Now it is time to give attention to the racing and what we have to do on monitor. I have been on the manufacturing unit with my Staff since Saudi and I additionally examined within the RB19 at Silverstone, so it has been plenty of hours spent collectively and plenty learnt. It is a Dash weekend in Miami, so it will be a really busy one and we have now to attempt to maximise every little thing as a lot as attainable in that one follow session after which in on a regular basis out of the automotive, with my engineers and Staff. Hopefully, if all goes effectively we will probably be smiling on Sunday evening.”
Stats & Details
• Max is essentially the most profitable driver in Dash historical past, having gained 11 of the 19 races ever held within the format. On this time, he has claimed 9 poles and led precisely 200 laps – no different driver has led greater than 42 laps.
• Yuki scored factors in each the Dash and Grand Prix in Miami final season, ending seventh within the race and eighth within the Dash occasion.
• After ending on the rostrum in Saudi Arabia, Max moved forward of Sebastian Vettel into second on the all-time factors desk. His profession tally of three,110.5 factors is just bested by Lewis Hamilton (4,983.5).
• Yuki’s eighth-placed qualifying place alongside Max’s pole in Jeddah gave the Staff its greatest mixed qualifying place since Azerbaijan final September.
• Within the earlier three editions, no driver has gained ranging from the entrance row. Max’s win right here in 2023 from ninth on the grid was the primary victory from that beginning place because the 1984 French Grand Prix.
