Piquet identifies Verstappen’s starts as his least strong area

Nelson Piquet Jr. sees starts as Max Verstappen’s least strong area, but frames them as an occasional shortfall rather than a serious flaw. On the Pelas Pistas podcast, he called Verstappen phenomenal across the board and said that sometimes he does not get everything together at the start.

Piquet had expected Verstappen to attack Kimi Antonelli at the wide first corner of the United States Grand Prix. He said Antonelli was on mediums while Verstappen had softs, and expected Verstappen to exploit that difference. Instead, Piquet said, Antonelli got away so well that he was gone at once; in Piquet’s view, Verstappen did not get a particularly good start.

The article also notes that Isack Hadjar has faced similar start difficulties this season, leaving a wider problem with the RB22 as another possibility.