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About the floor damage from hitting the bollard conversation in the comments, Red Bull has released a statement: saying there was floor damage to Verstappen's Car from hitting the bollard. While Max has been saying he didn't felt any difference in pace.

Horner:

Speaking afterwards, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said: “I don't think we had a great balance all weekend. Obviously, he hit the bollard around lap 20 and that has actually done quite a lot of damage to the underside of the car, so we will have to look at exactly what the effect of that was. "It is a reasonable amount of the area around the left rear floor. There is a reasonable amount that's missing and you can see it awfully flexing as well, so it certainly wouldn't be helping."

Verstappen:

Asked specifically though about Horner’s suggestions of his pace drop being down to damage, Verstappen replied: “It didn't feel different, so I don't know. Maybe it was already damaged. I don't know. I mean I hit that thing and then my pace was the same so I didn't really know if there was damage.”

Source: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red-bull-insists-verstappen-had-floor-damage-despite-post-f1-race-confusion/10607603/

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[–] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There has been some confusion about the floor damage, apparently even max was confused by Red Bull saying that there was floor damage as he didn't felt much difference in the car.

Furthermore, Verstappen gave a quote in the Red Bull press release later in the evening clarifying how clear the damage was.

“When we took the car back to the garage, we also found that the floor was damaged and had a hole in which could have been picked up from hitting the cone,” he remarked.

Source: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red-bull-insists-verstappen-had-floor-damage-despite-post-f1-race-confusion/10607603/