Max Verstappen, Red Bull dream of youngest World Champion, complained about it power plant.
Verstappen argues that Honda has not made enough progress to improve their current power plant units. He pointed out to the performance of their engines at French Grand Prix.
Japanese power plant provider replaced their old engine with the newly upgraded ‘spec three’ version.
The newly introduced upgrade was also provided to Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat along with Verstappen at Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
However, Verstappen was left unimpressed with the rate of progress that Honda made compared to their rivals.
“You could see in lap one I think we are missing some top speed to the top guys,” he responded to a question.
Verstappen complained about not being able to catch top two teams, “The McLarens behind are very quick on the straight.”
He is ambitious to challenge Hamilton and Vettel. But the contender for world champion also includes newly entrant Charles Leclerc.
Verstappen wants to improve his performance and require a competitive car to perform.
He explained, “The car balance is not too bad. We do need to gain a bit of performance from the car to be really competitive. We do need to make a bigger step also with the engine.”
“You could see the Renault over one lap they have a quite powerful ‘quali mode’ or whatever they use in lap one,” he added.
He went of adding: “Afterwards they have to back it out, of course, and then you can see they are not a threat any more. But over one lap we can definitely improve a bit more.”
Verstappen is still hopeful that the manufacturer will make more progress in the races. He is particularly concerned about race on its home ground, where he wanted to wash-out competition in his Red Bull.
“[It’s] not much better than this weekend, I think, to be realistic, but we will see.
“A lot of straights and not many corners to really gain a lot – if you already gain something, because at the moment I don’t think we are that superior [there].”
