Speaking to Sky Sports F1, Team Principal Christian Horner appeared more bewildered by the sudden changes between Q2 and Q3 as he stated that “we simply don’t understand it”.
“I think there’s something that clearly isn’t working on the car,” he continued. “We’re trying to unravel that and understand. First of all you’ve got to understand the problem, then understand how to address it, and then implement it. There’ll be an engineering solution to an engineering problem.
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“Q2, it didn’t look too bad. Still had the handling characteristics that Max has been talking about but in Q3 there’s something I missed – the others can all improve on new tyres but we were miles away.
“We need to address it quickly. We can see the McLarens have made a significant step over the last few races and we’re now behind Ferrari and Mercedes here as well, so a lot to do.”
