The F1 world champion recorded the 50th win of his career and his 15th triumph in 2023 at the Circuit of the Americas, backing up his sprint race success from Saturday, but came under huge pressure from Lewis Hamilton late on as the Dutch driver had to manage a brake problem.
Verstappen was heard throughout the race complaining about his brakes over team radio and finished the race dropping time to Hamilton over the closing laps, eventually winning by just 2.225s.
After Red Bull changed his brakes overnight between the sprint race and the grand prix Verstappen was unsure what caused the problem and has asked the team to investigate it.
“We changed the brakes after yesterday and it was not good, I had no good feeling under braking, and I couldn’t really get on top of it for the whole race,” Verstappen told Sky Sports F1.
“This is something we need to understand because when you are not very confident around here under braking you just don’t have a nice feeling under braking and when you come off it.
“It can cost you quite a bit of lap time so it was a bit more difficult than I expected.
“I’ve never really struggled in braking so far in my F1 career but today it definitely was a problem.”
Source: Autosport