The world champion suffered his second DNF of the season at the Australian Grand Prix as his car ground to a halt with an unspecified problem on lap 39 in Melbourne.
The non-points finish, allied to another non-score in the season-opening Bahrain GP, has left the Dutchman 46 points adrift of runaway championship leader Charles Leclerc after just three races
Speaking to Sky, Verstappen said that thoughts on the championship were far from his mind already, as the priority was on Red Bull getting on top of its problems.
“We’re already miles behind, so I don’t even want to think about the championship fight at the moment,” he explained. “I think it’s more important to finish races.
“Today was in general just a bad day again. Not really having the pace, and just managing my tyres to try and just bring it to the end, because it looked like quite an easy P2 anyway.
“I knew I could not fight Charles, so there was no point to try and put pressure on him. But yeah, we didn’t even finish…
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