“No, it doesn’t,” Verstappen explained. “I mean, he already did more than just being my race engineer anyway, so I think it’s well-thought about and basically spreading a bit the workload. So for me, that’s fine.”
That aside, Verstappen’s focus is now on how the team can make progress on the track during the final six races of the season, having been overhauled by McLaren at the top of the constructors’ standings.
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Following a short pause in the calendar, the United States Grand Prix will kick off a triple header of races when the action resumes, before another sequence of three Grands Prix follows to conclude the campaign.
Pushed on whether the race in Austin could be ‘make or break’ in terms of defining how the championship picture looks going forward, Verstappen responded: “I don’t know if it’s a make or break, but from now on, of course, we want to make steps forward.
