Much as Max Verstappen enjoys virtual racing in his spare time, for the past two weeks the world champion has had an altogether more serious task in putting in the hours on the Red Bull simulator, as the team pursue a solution to the weakness in their car that has revitalised the 2024 Formula One world championship.
Verstappen, all but untouchable on his way to the 2022 and 2023 world championships, has a far narrower advantage this season and of late has been on the back foot to McLaren and Ferrari at some tracks, another of which is likely to be the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve at this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix.
