Pink Bull has struggled to search out efficiency all weekend on the Marina Bay monitor, and after a set-up change made issues worse for qualifying the Dutchman couldn’t higher eleventh place.
Chatting with his crew as he drove again to the pitlane he mentioned that the session had been “a surprising expertise”.
He then confronted investigations into three impeding incidents, together with one within the pitlane, rising with two reprimands however no grid penalties.
Verstappen made it clear that from eleventh he doesn’t assume he can win Sunday’s race.
“You’ll be able to neglect about that,” he mentioned when requested if he may battle for victory. “You’ll be able to’t cross. On different tracks you can begin final, I imply in all probability in Spa you can begin final and win the race, however not right here.
“Right here that you must be two or three seconds sooner to have an opportunity to cross. And in order that’s simply road circuit stuff.”
Verstappen acknowledged that it was extra vital to grasp why the crew struggled in Singapore slightly than fear about ending his successful streak.
“I knew that there was a day that you just’re not successful anymore,” he mentioned. “But additionally we had a very good run anyway, up till now.
“I might all the time take a season like we’re successful this a lot and having one actually unhealthy weekend over the opposite manner round, the place you are not combating for the championship, and you then’re successful right here.
Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing RB19
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“However I believe it is extra vital that we simply perceive what we did incorrect this weekend. As a result of I am assured that subsequent week we go to Suzuka, and the automotive is quick once more.
“It already felt like that additionally within the simulator that this was a tough set-up window for the automotive, then we went to Suzuka and it simply felt superb once more, like a lot of the races.”
Verstappen admitted {that a} change for qualifying had gone within the incorrect route.
“I believe really this morning, though FP3 was higher, we made some good progress,” he mentioned. “It was, after all, nonetheless not the place we would like it to be. However it was wanting like one thing.
“Then we made just a few extra modifications, which we thought the set-up, the automotive, would enable. Then we acquired into qualifying and the primary huge drawback I had was that I could not brake late and laborious as a result of I might backside out and it could unload the entrance tyres.
“On a road circuit that’s one thing which may be very essential, to be assured on the brakes, and assault the corners. So I could not try this.
“Apart from that, additionally simply the low-speed corners, the place I believe we’ve got been struggling already the entire weekend. I simply had no rear assist.
“So I simply stored on like having mini slides, or in my remaining lap an enormous one in Flip 3. And when it is like that there isn’t any lap time.”
He added: “Clearly, we simply do not perceive that challenge. In any other case, you do not make these sorts of modifications and it is worse, so we have been clearly not understanding the automotive this weekend round this monitor.”