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F1 News: Max Verstappen admits hitting a bird in the middle of the Canadian GP race, luckily the Red Bull RB19 he was driving was undamaged.

Max Verstappen is known to have endured the Canadian GP without major issues from the start. However, he contacted the Red Bull Racing crew on lap 11 after hitting a bird.

For him, the driver’s flagship car, the RB19, suffered no damage or loss of performance. However, during a post-race inspection in Montreal, technicians found fragments of a dead bird in the area around the right front brake line.

“I think the biggest moment he had was hitting the bird, which had just passed half the race behind the front right brake line,” said Die Roten Bullen boss Christian Horner. .

Max Verstappen himself admitted seeing the remains of a bird when he got out of the car after the end of the race.

“It was still stuck to my car when I got in, it doesn’t look good! I’m also sorry for the mechanic who had to remove it,” he said.

Apart from this incident, the title holder had encountered problems when adjusting the temperature of the tires. It turns out that almost every driver on the 2023 F1 grid experiences this.

“They’re just struggling to get the temperature right for the car, and it’s hard to generate power when there’s only about six corners here and a long straight,” said Horner.

“You can see the lap times vary a bit for all the drivers at times. But, Max managed to break the DRS and then covered quite a distance before the safety car. , he also got 10 seconds.”

“A circuit like this is quite unique, so being able to do this challenge well is something to be proud of,” he concluded.

Article tags: Max Verstappen, Red Bull, F1 2023, Canadian GP