Purple Bull’s latest positive factors imply they’ll go into the remaining rounds anticipating to compete for victories, says group principal Laurent Mekies.
The group arrived on the Circuit of the Americas seeking to construct on the progress they’ve made with their automobile on the earlier two rounds.
The group struggled with their RB21 earlier within the 12 months however have been aggressive at each low- and high-downforce circuits just lately. On Thursday Max Verstappen mentioned they nonetheless want to shut the hole to McLaren in medium-speed corners.
Nevertheless Mekies believes his group ought to be aggressive over the remaining rounds. Talking forward of yesterday’s dash race qualifying session, by which Verstappen took pole place, he mentioned it’s “truthful to say” they need to be capable to compete for victories.
“We predict we’ve got sufficient potential within the automobile now to be within the struggle on most tracks going ahead,” he mentioned.
“Now, it doesn’t imply that we can win, however it in all probability implies that if we do nail all the things, extract all the things out of the automobile on a given monitor, then we expect we can struggle for the win.
“It doesn’t imply that we’re ready to try this each race weekend. It doesn’t imply that we gained’t get overwhelmed by [Mercedes, McLaren or Ferrari] on any race weekend, however it means we ought to be in that group that fights for the win.”
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Verstappen’s pole yesterday is his third from the final 4 qualifying periods. He gained on the low-downforce Monza and Baku programs and completed second at Singapore, which requires excessive downforce. Nevertheless he beat the 2 McLaren drivers who’re forward of him within the championship.
Though Verstappen has out-scored the McLaren drivers in all the final three rounds, Mekies mentioned the championship state of affairs is not going to have an effect on how the group goes about racing.
“You don’t change your method to racing due to the place you stand within the championships or due to the place your possibilities stand. You go on the market. It’s troublesome sufficient to really feel on Sunday night time that you’ve nailed all the things out of your automobile for that weekend, and that’s the place everybody’s vitality is targeted.”
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