Horner after qualifying in Budapest: 'We tend to have better race pace'

Published on 22 July 2023 by Julien Lemmen

The team of Oracle Red Bull Racing didn’t take pole position for only the second time this year. In an extremely exciting qualifying session in Hungary, Lewis Hamilton was just three thousandths of a second faster than Max Verstappen in P2.

Team principal Christian Horner reflects after qualifying: “A good qualifying today from both our drivers but it was a big lap from Lewis and he did very well to secure pole. Max didn’t seem too comfortable with his set up, he wasn’t able to find his sweet spot, you could see he was fighting the car slightly. I don’t think he was getting what he wanted from the car in quali as he seemed more comfortable in the long runs we did earlier today so we will be looking into it this evening. It will be 10 degrees hotter which will make things interesting, especially with the balance, but we tend to have better race pace than we do in qualifying so lets see what tomorrow brings."

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