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A despondent Max Verstappen labelled his Red Bull car "undriveable" aft the four-time satellite champion qualified a lowly 11th for Sunday's (March 29, 2026) Japanese Grand Prix.
The Dutchman, who has won astatine Suzuka for the past 4 years, dropped retired successful Q2 successful different qualifying nightmare to compound a hard commencement to the season.
He crashed retired successful Q3 successful the season-opener successful Australia and has consistently railed against caller Formula One regulations that spot a 50-50 divided betwixt accepted and electrical power.
"The car ne'er turns mid-corner, but astatine the aforesaid clip this weekend, it's conscionable oversteering a batch connected entry. It's truly difficult, unpredictable," Verstappen, who took rod past twelvemonth with a track-record thigh time, told Sky Sports F1.
"We thought we'd fixed it a small spot successful FP3 (third practice), I mean determination was inactive a batch of understeer successful the car, but present successful qualifying for maine it was again undriveable, truthful that's thing that we request to look at."
Verstappen, who finished sixth successful Melbourne and retired from the Chinese Grand Prix 2 weeks ago, added: "We person problems that I cannot explicate successful item here.
"I deliberation successful qualifying it conscionable came backmost to a constituent wherever it became undrivable." Verstappen, 28, was progressive successful a nationalist confrontation connected Thursday (March 26, 2026) erstwhile helium ejected a newsman from his quality conference.
