Wache after sprint qualifying in Montreal: 'More performance available'

Published on 23 May 2026 by Niels Hendrix

Pierre Waché, technical director of Oracle Red Bull Racing, said after the sprint qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix: “In practice we tried to learn as much as possible for the rest of the weekend across qualifying and from the long runs in free practice. We saw a direction to go in, but putting the tyre where want it to be was quite difficult. Sprint quali didn't go as we had hoped, we had an issue with Max where car performance deteriorated as the session went on, so we need to understand that. I think we had more performance available to us, but we just weren't able to extract it today.”