{"id":291507,"date":"2023-09-21T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=291507"},"modified":"2023-09-21T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T10:21:35","slug":"max-verstappen-plans-to-put-lowly-singpores-finish-behind-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/racing\/f1\/max-verstappen-plans-to-put-lowly-singpores-finish-behind-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen plans to put lowly Singpore&apos;s finish behind him"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Max Verstappen plans to put Singpore&#8217;s fifth-placed finish behind him in Japan&#8230; but singles out McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as major threats to his return to winning ways<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The defending world champion struggled to master the street circuit in Red Bull\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But the Dutchman claimed that Suzuka had felt &#8216;very nice&#8217; on the simulator\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Verstappen highlighted the strength of the upgrades McLaren have made\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Max Verstappen has insisted last week\u2019s lowly finish in Singapore was just a blip as the reigning world champion set out to ensure normal service is resumed in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman, 25, saw his 10-race winning run come to an end last weekend as his Red Bull struggled to master the razor-tight street circuit in Marina Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz went onto secure only his second Formula One victory ahead of Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, but with long, fast corners ahead of him in Suzuka, Verstappen is confident he can get back to winning ways at the Japanese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I mean, Singapore is so different to what we will experience here in terms of the way you set up the car, so I\u2019m also not worried that a weekend like that will upset our weekend here,\u2019 he said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was not our strongest weekend of course, but it\u2019s important that now we just analyse everything and step by step, we\u2019ll get there. But there\u2019s also no real rush.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/21\/10\/75676405-12544251-image-a-42_1695288216639.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen is keen to look ahead to race weekend after faltering in Singapore last week\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/21\/10\/75676411-12544251-image-a-43_1695288224170.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The two-time world champion ended his ten-race winning streak with a lowly fifth-place finish<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/21\/10\/75676433-12544251-image-m-45_1695288294802.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Second-placed Lando Norris was named as a rival to watch by after McLaren&#8217;s new upgrades<\/p>\n<p>\u2018(Suzuka) felt very nice on the simulator,&#8217; he added, &#8216;and normally that\u2019s a good indication when everything comes quite easy, so I hope of course that it\u2019s going to be exactly the same in real life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton and George Russell showed promising signs that Mercedes may finally have rediscovered their pace at the end of the Singapore Grand Prix, but Verstappen singled out the duo\u2019s fellow Briton, Lando Norris, as well as Australian rookie, Oscar Piastri, as his biggest threats in Japan this weekend, with the pair boasting impressive upgrades heading into Round 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Honestly, what they have done this year is quite impressive, from where they started to where they are now,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So I, for sure, expect them to be strong. But of course, I hope to be ahead!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen\u2019s shock performance in Singapore onset celebrations from some quarters of the Formula One fanbase, who have been eager to see a more diverse set of results in response to the Dutchman\u2019s tight stranglehold of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>But the world championship leader has described those dissenting voices as \u2018not real fans\u2019 and accepts no responsibility for what some may view as a \u2018boring\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/21\/11\/75678041-12544251-image-a-62_1695290765533.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz won his second grand prix at Marina Bay, and Lewis Hamilton bagged a third-place finish and his fifth podium of the year<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don&#8217;t think about what is good for F1, I don&#8217;t think it was necessarily bad, what was happening, we were just better than everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If people can&#8217;t appreciate that, you are not a real fan, but this is how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is why I was super relaxed about it. We didn&#8217;t perform and other people did a better job than us and deserved to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They shouldn&#8217;t win because people say it&#8217;s boring that we are winning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12544251\/Max-Verstappen-Singpores-fifth-finish-Japan-McLaren-Lando-Norris-Oscar-Piastri.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen plans to put Singpore&#8217;s fifth-placed finish behind him in Japan&#8230; but singles out McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as major threats to his return to winning ways The defending world champion struggled to master the street circuit in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Max Verstappen plans to put lowly Singpore&amp;apos;s finish behind him - Sports-Life-News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/racing\/f1\/max-verstappen-plans-to-put-lowly-singpores-finish-behind-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Max Verstappen plans to put lowly Singpore&amp;apos;s finish behind him - Sports-Life-News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Max Verstappen plans to put Singpore&#8217;s fifth-placed finish behind him in Japan&#8230; 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