He’s not, however, getting too far ahead of himself with the tyre compounds brought in for the Spanish Grand Prix set to be harder than those utilised at Silverstone last Sunday.
“[On Sunday] we had a good race,” said Verstappen. “Who knows, maybe it’s the tyres? We had a good day so we just need to be happy about [Sunday] but we can also be realistic; we are still lacking pace in qualifying, quite a bit, so we need to solve that first as well and of course we go back to harder tyres in Barcelona.
“Of course we saw last week that on those harder tyres we are still quite a bit off so I don’t expect any miracles there. I know it’s a hard track on tyres but with these hard tyres you can push quite a bit, harder than what we’ve done [on Sunday].
“But yeah, I think in general, it’s more about doing a one-stop [strategy] is not very exciting so if you find a way of doing two stops which of course, nice tyres as well.
“I mean, I hate… I think in general nobody likes managing tyres throughout the race. We want to push, that would be good.”
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