Max Verstappen Slams Red Bull Car After Spin

Max Verstappen has sharply criticised his Red Bull car after a high-speed spin at the British Grand Prix ended his podium hopes late in the race at Silverstone.

Verstappen was running in podium contention before rotating into the gravel at Turn 15. The incident marked his second spin in two consecutive race weekends, after his qualifying session in Austria also ended abruptly with a crash into the barrier.

Verstappen linked the issue to the RB22’s rear wing, which he claimed was not shutting properly into the braking zone. That left the car losing downforce at a critical moment as he turned into the corner.

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“Like Austria, a different fault but the same outcome,” Verstappen told media including RacingNews365.

“So, again, while turning into the corner, the rear wing is not fully attaching and you lose a lot of downforce for that.”

“At that point, it's super dangerous because you can really hurt yourself two times. I was lucky in Austria, I was lucky here, but that's why you get really fed up with it.”

The issue extended a difficult weekend for Verstappen, who had already complained about poor balance and a lack of top speed compared to the other car in the same garage. Although he had been in position to benefit from Lewis Hamilton’s penalty, George Russell’s slow puncture, and Kimi Antonelli’s problem, Verstappen said a podium would still not have reflected Red Bull’s true performance.

“[I was] unlucky with everything that happened around me, with the penalty for Lewis, a slow puncture for George, Kimi's problem,” he said.

“Even if we had finished on the podium, you'd take it, but it's not deserved at all.”

“On the hard tyres we were really slow. I don't know how I kept George and Lewis behind for so long.”

“The whole weekend I had a terrible balance, no top speed compared to the other car as well in the garage, and then the race was exactly the same, which I already predicted.”

Verstappen’s criticism places Red Bull’s focus on the RB22’s aerodynamic stability and performance correlation after two consecutive incidents. With rear-wing behaviour, balance, and top speed all emerging as concerns across the weekend, the technical review will be central before the next phase of the Formula 1 season.