We did not foresee it. But Monza does not emphasize the lack of a party regime

Helmut Marco’s statements invariably provoke many reactions, and recently they have begun to contradict themselves. A few days ago, the Red Bull team advisor said that “the distribution of forces will be evident at Monza, where Mercedes will lose its advantage in qualifying.” However, after the session to determine the places on the grid, he stated that the course does not show well the lack of the so-called party mode.

Lewis Hamilton and Valteri Botas dominated qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix. Third in the standings, Carlos Sainz (McLaren) was 0.808 seconds behind the Englishman. Max Verstappen finished fifth, behind Sainz, Sergio Pérez (Racing Point) and 0.908 seconds behind Hamilton. Lewis commented on Marco’s statement Thursday that Red Bull had pushed for the ban.

“The FIA ​​says it wants to control the powertrains. Then Red Bull came up with the phrase ‘we push it’. So the motives of the directive are very different,” said the six-time world champion.

After qualifying at Monza, Marco decided that the characteristics of the Italian track do not allow a good enough demonstration of the lack of a qualifying regime.

“It just came to our attention then. But Monza does not emphasize the lack of a party regime,” Marco said.

“Also, we see a smaller time difference between Q1, Q2 and Q3, so the change seems to have an effect. At least in the race we will be able to use more power to see what will be possible. It did not help that Max’s tour did not was perfect.

According to Verstappen, you also have to wait for a weekend on a normal track, as the withdrawal has an effect on Monza.

“I do not think we have taken a step back. However, I did not expect anything different. Of course, there were other statements from other people. But this is the situation. As you can see, practically nothing has changed,” added the Dutch driver.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff pointed out that some of the teams that wanted the ban so badly didn’t do very well. He was also convinced that his drivers benefited from the ban in terms of race pace.

Starting in fifth place is not what we intended, there is still work to do. Let’s go for the podium tomorrow #Keep pushing 🇮🇹 #ItalianGP pic.twitter.com/9Sam3b2XJZ

– Max Verstappen (@ Max33Verstappen) September 5, 2020