Red Bull changes made ‘zero difference’ as Max Verstappen laments ‘difficult to drive’ car in Chinese Grand Prix Qualifying

Max Verstappen believes that changes carried out by Red Bull for Qualifying made ‘zero distinction’, with the four-time World Champion set to begin the Chinese Grand Prix from eighth on the grid.

The Dutchman has endured a tough begin to the season with the RB22, and his fortunes failed to enhance on Saturday in Shanghai as he completed outdoors the factors in the Sprint.

Later in Qualifying, Verstappen was unable to match the tempo set by Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren, qualifying nearly one second behind polesitter Kimi Antonelli on the fourth row.

“It’s the same. We changed the whole car [from the Sprint] and it makes zero difference,” he stated.

“I’ve no stability, so you’ll be able to’t even lap after lap get a little bit of a reference as a result of it is simply in every single place and it is extremely tough to drive. It’s not good.

“We are where we should be. That’s probably also where we will be racing tomorrow.”

Red Bull group mate Isaac Hadjar was additionally unable to problem the main groups, with the Frenchman set to begin tenth on the grid.

“Honestly, no regrets. I did everything I could, put a good lap in, but I’m just not very happy with the balance and I was just a bit slow compared with the cars around,” he stated.

“It’s not the place we would like to be as a group however we are going to simply combat and perceive.

“There’s been a lot of work to turn things around compared to yesterday. We are so far away from the lead that we are trying things and it’s still not really working but at least we try and understand.”