
"He was fully committed the whole way round. "It's very difficult when you've committed as much as Max clearly had on that last lap to just just go, 'I'll go a bit gentle'," said Hill. Sky F1's Damon Hill and Paul Di Resta agreed.

I still tried to rescue the lap but I hit the wall and really quickly broke the rear." I thought I braked at a similar point and I just got a lock up. "But then of course I still wanted to do a good last corner. "Arriving at the first corner I was three tenths under my lap time. Formula One vehicles use highly automated sequential semi-automatic gearboxes with paddle-shifters following F1 regulations that state that one reverse gear must be used, with rear-wheel-drive and 8 forward gears can be used in an F1 vehicle, which was increased from 7 since the 2014 season. "I knew that I was at the time second behind Lewis," Verstappen told Sky F1.
#Max verstappen gearbox driver
If a driver incurs a penalty exceeding 15 grid places, they will be required to start the race at the back. The next time an additional element is used, the driver gets a five-place grid penalty. Could he have taken the last corner less aggressively given the dash on the steering wheel was telling him how much faster he was? Penalties are given in the following manner: The first time an additional element is used, the driver gets a 10-place grid penalty. He was two tenths up on Hamilton, who had long completed his last lap, at that stage.
#Max verstappen gearbox cracker
Verstappen's lap was indeed a cracker before Turn 27, finding the limits of the street circuit - he even clipped the wall in the first sector - and he had posted the best two sectors of qualifying before the final turns. Sky F1's Anthony Davidson analyses the Lewis Hamilton's and Max Verstappen's fastest laps from a dramatic qualifying session in Jeddah Verstappen locked up at his final braking point of the day, tried to stay on the power on the exit of the corner, and the rear of his Red Bull hit the wall.

Photo by: Charles Coates / Motorsport Images Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing after his crash

It's difficult to overtake here, but still.” If the gearbox has damage or glimpses of that, then we will change it. “We are so fast that we don't take any risks. “They decided not to change and then bang, on the warm-up lap, the consequences became clear. Speaking about Red Bull’s thoughts on the matter, Red Bull’s Helmut Marko told Servus TV: “We have to take it apart and look at it. Red Bull will not know just yet whether or not Verstappen’s gearbox has escaped unscathed, but the team is clear that if there is the slightest risk of it being compromised then it will elect to replace it – which would mean a five-place grid drop. The nature of the impact with the concrete barrier – with his right rear hitting it side on – is the type of incident that can result in critical gearbox damage.

But he made a slight mistake under braking for the final hairpin, when he locked up and ran in slightly too deep, before clouting the wall on the way out.
