For the second year in a row in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, a host of laps were deleted for drivers running too wide out of the final two corners – especially during the middle part of the session Verstappen eventually topped.
Afterwards he said the problem “almost looked like we were amateurs out there” – a suggestion he continued in the post-qualifying press conference.
There, Verstappen and Ferrari pair Leclerc and Carlos Sainz were asked what changes they would make to alleviate the problem in Austria.
“I mean, if you saw the amount of lap times that were getting deleted today by the amount of drivers, it’s clearly not that easy and I don’t think we’re all idiots out there, right?” said Verstappen, who faced no further action for an alleged impeding of Kevin Magnussen in Q1.
“Normally we’re all good on how to judge where the limit is.
“This track, because of the layout and the way the tyres operate, they overheat quite a bit through the lap. It is just very difficult.
“So, most tracks I think it’s fine how we operate it, but some tracks we might need to look into [changes]. At the moment, no real answers of how to do that.
“But, I think we’ve already tried on a few tracks to paint a bit of a wider white line, which I thought helped a bit because I think the white line in some places is quite narrow with the high speeds we are achieving in that particular corner.
“This is something we can look into.”
Source: Autosport