McLaren CEO Zak Brown believes it would be a “big mistake” to rule out 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen from winning this weekend’s F1 B🎀elgian Grand Prix despite bei⭕ng hit with a 10-place grid penalty.

Verstappen can only star🌱t from 11th on the grid at best after he was hit with a grid penalty.

The Dutchman has be꧅en forced to use a fourth power u﷽nit and thus will be demoted on the grid.

Verstappen dominated first practice at Spa🏅-Francorchamps, topping the timesheets by over 0.5s ahead of Oscar Piastri.

Despite Verstappen’s penalty, Brown thinks it would be foolish to think the Red Bull driver c🌸an’t win.

“It’s a tricky track with how much downforce do you want versus straight-line speed,” he 🐽said. 

“Max’s second sector 🧜there was pretty awesome. You’ve g💛ot to assume he’s on for pole which means P11.

“You can pass around here. I think he went from 20th to ninth in two, three laps not long ago. I think it will be a biᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚg mistake to think he can’t go from P11 to P1.

“We got to take🍌 advantage of eꦗvery opportunity that we can.”

Sky Sports F1 pundit Martin Brunဣdle was very imp൲ressed with Verstappen’s early form at Spa, describing it as “ominous”.

“It’s FP1 but he was flying out there,” he explained. “Both in single lap and longer runs. I have just been looking at his tyres. The soꦐfts look quite good. The soft tyres that came past us when we were up at McLaren waiting for Zak, looked awful. The mediums still looked a bit ✃angry.

“So I think Max was out there on this new t🌃armac and has really hit a sweet 🤡spot in car setup, driving style and just the speed he was carrying.

“I think it looked ominous just how good Verstappen and Red Bull were t🌺hen.”

Verstappen sits 76 p🅰oints clear of Lando Norris at the top of the F1 drivers' championship ahead of Sunday's race.