Max Verstappen believes Ferrari are simply too fast to compete with at the moment, and reckons the best he will be able to finish at the Russian Grand Prix is fourth or fifth due to his P9 starting position which was given via a five-place grid penalty. In yesterday’s afternoon practice, the Dutchman kept up pace with the Scuderia and Charles Leclerc to finish fastest, but in his opinion, Ferrari were withholding some of their power for qualifying. Article continues under video “Ferrari, they didn't turn their engines up [in practice],” Verstappen said after Q3 in Sochi, “Yesterday we were the same pace on the straight and today [the gap] is more than a second we lose on all the...
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