His team boss Christian Horner conceded that with three unrelated major problems to solve the team had faced a “busy few days” addressing the problems that preceded the “brutal” double retirement at Sakhir.
Horner is hopeful that the fuel system, brake cooling and front suspension problems that occurred last weekend have been fixed, and will not re-occur in this week’s Saudi Arabian GP.
Both Verstappen and teammate Sergio Perez were obliged to manage their brakes from early in the race, and both drivers eventually retired after a vacuum in the fuel cell prevented the lift pump from feeding fuel to the engine.
In addition, Verstappen faced a steering issue immediately after his third and final pitstop, triggered when the car was lowered off the jacks.
“Quite a few little things we have to get on top of,” said Verstappen when asked about the issues by Autosport.
“But the positive overall is that the car is competitive. And that’s the most important, these things we had, I think…
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