Sky Sports activities F1 presenter Ted Kravitz has issued a stark warning to Pink Bull following Max Verstappen’s DNF on the Austrian Grand Prix.
Verstappen’s race on the Pink Bull Ring ended on the opening lap after he was crashed out of the race by Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli.
Antonelli misjudged his braking into Flip 3, taking each drivers out of the race on Lap 1.
Pink Bull left their dwelling race with no factors on the board as Yuki Tsunoda endured a shocker.
Tsunoda was lapped twice and acquired a 10-second time penalty for colliding with Franco Colpainto.
After the race, Kravitz mentioned that with out Verstappen, the group is left with “no one” able to dealing with their difficult automobile.
Kravitz raised issues about Pink Bull’s prospects long run with out Verstappen.
“What occurs when Max Verstappen is bundled out of the race by Kimi Antonelli at first? Effectively, they’ve no one, it appears, within the different automobile. So this second Pink Bull is near-undriveable,” Kravitz mentioned in his post-race pocket book.
“I’d think about it’s an identical to the opposite Pink Bull, however nobody can drive it. So it is not Yuki Tsunoda’s fault, it wasn’t Liam Lawson’s, or Sergio Perez’s fault. It wasn’t Daniel Ricciardo’s fault. It wasn’t any of it. It is the automobile.”
Verstappen future within the highlight
Kravitz’s feedback are poignant given there’s hypothesis surrounding Verstappen’s future.
Verstappen has been linked with a possible change to Mercedes.
George Russell revealed that conversations are ongoing between Mercedes and the Verstappen camp.
Verstappen has insisted that he’s completely happy at Pink Bull however it’s understood he has an exit clause in his contract.
Kravitz defined that Austria was a worrying glimpse of the long run with out Verstappen for Pink Bull.
“It is this automobile that is arrange and constructed, and the best way it’s, it is solely drivable by one particular person,” Kravitz added.
“Now, that is OK, I assume, if that one particular person is Max Verstappen, and he is so good, he’ll try to get a fifth world championship in a row, having bought 4 in a row path these automobiles are making.
“But when Max Verstappen is not driving your automobile as a result of he goes out in the beginning or as a result of he is not within the group anymore, which loads have been talking about, then what are you left with? You are left with an undriveable automobile that no one can rating any factors in.”
