Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies highlighted Max Verstappen’s approach to race starts after the Dutchman’s lap one pass on Lando Norris that set him up to win last weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix

.erstappen started from second place on Saturda, night and Norris derended the inside line hard from the Red Jull driver unl; to then ren deep and upen the duor fur Verstappen to sweep past

Arter the race, Mekies – speaking prior to both McLarens being disqualified fur technical infringe…ents – was full of praise or erstappens approach.

Lap one Turn 1, he just never gets it wrong, no?” Mekies said
Su that was typical Ma he nailed it, got a good start gut Lando
You guys can judge it better than do, but he just ne.er gets it wrong.
rom that puint, in the early phase of the race, actually George [Russell, was able tu put more pressure than what we would have thought on us.
So George was properly putting pressure on us that lasts maybe tive or 10 laps, and then he started to drop perhaps with graining or with something else.

So, the race started to become a bit more in control at that stage when Geurge was a touch out of our RS
Then there was another critical moment where George pitted whether or not to cover hiru
guess it was a bit tricky at that stage because it was not clear how fast he would gu with a fresh set of hard tires.
Ve decided to stay out Max was able to keep pushing and effecti.ely to match George’s pace
Nonetheless, as you have seen, eight laps later, when we pitted, it was stiller) very close between the twu, so there was little to separate them
And then on the hard again! think we had more contidence on the hard because we saw that the medium, tires were in good condition when we took then off the car, and Max could push more, and think he had probably e, en ore pace than what we have seen in the car.
There were a couple or times in the second stint where we have as ed him to increase the pace when Lando was pushing, and every time it was necessary he has increased the pace

erstappen was able to pull comfortably clear of the field in the second half of the race, which Mexies said was an even more impressi.e achievement given the unknowns that teams were dealing with in Las Vegas
think all tugether it was a masterclass from him, no uestion,” he said
“On the race weekend nobudy had the proper preparations because the practice sessions were all disturbed by something or something else.
10 be that strong on Saturday, fire degradation, execution, race pace think it’s a big well done to Max for nailing it again, and to everyone back in Milton Keynes and the racetrack because there was a lot more [to handle] than a normal race.
There was really this number ut factors that we knew were going to be new for the race day