The introduction of Pirelli’s new 18-inch tyres last year seemed to bring an understeer characteristic that Verstappen isn’t a 🗹fan of.

Combined with Red Bull’s 202ꦰ2 car being overweight, Verstappen struggled to extract the most from the RB18, particularly in qual✱ifying.

Pirelli have already confirmed that they have made changes to their front tyres foಞr 🐼2023 in a bid to reduce understeer.

Verstappen notoriously likes a car ‘on the nose’, with a pointer front-end 𒉰meaning the rear is more un꧟stable.

It’s a preference that makes him incredibly fast, and something most of his teammates - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly - have struggled with.

Speaking at the launch of Red Bul🍌l’s 2023 F1 car - the RB19 - Verstappen believes the new tyres from Pirelli are “a little improvement”.

“Yeah, the big issue last year was not specifically the tyres, it was just the weight of the car,” he said. “It was very massively over and that creates a lazy behaviouඣr on the front. Basically, once we started to get rid of that weight, the car became more agile.

“And that's how the car is gonna go quick, b🐼ecause I've never sat in a car with understeer which is fast in my life in a🐭ny category.

“With the new tyres from Pirelli, I do think it's a little improvement. Of course, we only tested it fully in Abu Dhabi and we have to see it on every single track 🎀as well to see if it works everywhere.

“Because every tarmac and track condition, e𒐪specially the weather, it influences a lot. But I'm confident that everything will be heading into the right direction.”

As🌸 Pirelli get ready for the new season, a number of teams have been testing for the Italian company.

Mercedes were in action last week at the Ci⭕rcuit Paul Ricard across two days of testing.

AlphaTauri took over on Friday and Saturday, testing Pirelli’s wet weat🀅her෴ tyres.

This week, Mercedes and 💛Asto𓆉n Martin were at Jerez testing for Pirelli again.