F1’s trial of a dash race format at this weekend’s British Grand Prix has led to a timetable overhaul, with qualifying now shifting to Friday.
But despite the fact that meaning automobiles are already in parc ferme situations, so main modifications can’t happen, F1 has elected to stay with the ultimate free follow session earlier than Saturday afternoon’s dash qualifying.
The solely worth from the session will probably be in permitting groups to conduct lengthy runs to raised perceive tyre life.
Verstappen has questioned that transfer, nonetheless, as a result of there may be successfully nothing to goal for within the session as set-ups have already been dedicated to.
“What I find weird is you do qualifying and then you can’t change anything on the car,” he instructed Ziggo Sport.
“Then you have another free practice and then the sprint race. Then I think to myself: why not drop that second free practice, as it doesn’t really matter any more?”
F1 elected to impose parc ferme from the Friday afternoon session, reasonably than the dash race, as a result of it didn’t need to open the door for groups to construct qualifying automobiles.
Verstappen additionally mentioned that the entire movement of Friday felt “weird”, with qualifying not feeling as intense because it did beforehand.
“It’s just another Friday,” he mentioned. “But as an alternative of FP2 you’ve gotten a qualifying session, which does not depend as pole. So that is a bit bizarre, of course.
“It feels a bit weird to do a qualifying where there is nothing at stake. You don’t really get that pole feeling or whatever. But hopefully we can attack on Saturday, we’ll see.”
Verstappen will begin Saturday’s dash qualifying occasion from second on the grid, after being outpaced by Lewis Hamilton in Friday’s session.
Having suffered extreme understeer which left him removed from snug together with his automobile, Verstappen reckoned {that a} mixture of altering observe temperatures and an excessive amount of rear wing hindered his group towards Mercedes.
“I didn’t expect so much grip and ultimately I think we’ve put a bit too much rear wing as well,” he mentioned. “But the observe was actually a lot quicker all of a sudden in qualifying, particularly the sluggish corners.
“There are so many flat out now, you can’t gain a lot of time in those fast corners any more. It was just not ideal.”
