Verstappen Takes Blame For Costly Monaco Mistake

A crestfallen Max Verstappen has admitted he was the architect of his own misfortune on Saturday after qualifying last for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix

Monaco, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th May, 2018 ) :A crestfallen Max Verstappen has admitted he was the architect of his own misfortune on Saturday after qualifying last for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.

The young Dutch tyro crashed in final practice, causing damage to his Red Bull car that included a need for a new gearbox - and the repairs could not be completed before qualifying was underway.

"I got caught a bit off-guard, but that's not an excuse, and I hit the wall," admitted Verstappen, of his crash. "But this is my mistake, so it's not what you'd like to happen, but unfortunately it happens.

Here in Monaco, it's very easily done compared to other tracks. "We will look at it, see what we could've done better, and we still have a race to do tomorrow.

"When I heard that the gearbox had to be changed, we had about fifteen minutes so I knew it wasn't going to happen.

We had to hope for a red flag or something during qualifying because it would give you a bit more time." Looking ahead to starting from the back of a grid fronted by his teammate Daniel Ricciardo he said he had little idea of how to approach the race on a circuit where overtaking is notoriously difficult.

"I don't know at the moment, I need to look into it," he said. "It's just a mistake and you pay the price, but of course at Monaco the penalty is a bit bigger than at other tracks where you can start last and still go to the front or at least finish sixth because the top three teams are normally one stop ahead."