Pierre Wache: 'Max really put it all together'

Published on 18 October 2025 by Johan Peeters

Pierre Wache, technical director at Oracle Red Bull Racing, reflects after friday’s sprint qualifying for the United States Grand Prix: “During any qualifying session we are trying to maximise the performance of the car by trying to go as low as possible on set-up. During FP1 we tested two types of set-up across the two cars and we realised that Yuki’s set-up was a little bit better. It helped the high-speed bottoming that we have in the corners here and it achieved performance in the car without losing out in the low speed. It was a very good performance extraction from Max today and he really put it all together to get pole.”

“Unfortunately, Yuki didn’t have a chance to do more than one lap and clearly, we have to review on our side how to make sure he gets the chance to use the car, because with a second lap I think he would have been in SQ2 for sure.”

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