Listen to this article As the Red Bull driver battled to recover from an early off across a gravel trap, his attempts to find a way past George Russell were compromised by his DRS playing up and not working consistently. The DRS deployment issues were a recurrence of those that arose during qualifying and prevented Verstappen from challenging Charles Leclerc for pole position in his final run. This had prompted the team to make changes under parc ferme conditions ahead of the race to try to resolve the problem. In the pre-race official FIA technical delegate’s report, which indicates what parts are changed on a like-for-like basis and without penalty, Red Bull opted to replace the DRS actuator and flap pivot pins on Verstappen’s RB18. This was clearly not enough to fully resolve the problem and suggests the issue goes beyond just a single item failing. Mechanics work on the DRS of Max Verstappen, Red Bull RB18 Photo by: Giorgio Piola Indeed, as can be seen in the above image, the problem does not seem to just revolve solely around the actuator mechanism. As this exclusive phot …
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