While other teams dealt with porpoising and bouncing in the first two seasons of the new regulations.
Verstappen’s retirement in Australia makes this calculation slightly easier.
Alpine did announce he’d sit out the opening practice session at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve so that reserve driver Jack Doohan could tick off one of the team’s two rookie FP1 slots.
Sergio Perez’s day went from bad to worse with news he has a three-place grid penalty for the next race in Spain.
Red Bull will understand more or see more of my progress and my potential performance and maybe [it] can change in the future.
Perez was not – getting knocked out in Q1 for the second race in a row while his team-mate topped the first part of qualifying.