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Verstappen: Engine mapping and wheelspin causing bad starts

Italian Grand Prix – Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen has explained that getting his car off the line at the start of races is proving tricky. The Red Bull driver heads to Italy off the back of a disastrous race at Spa-Francorchamps. Having qualified in P5, a bad start shuffled him down to P7 behind Racing Point's Sergio Perez and Alfa's Kimi Raikkonen. Trying to take back a position from the Finn into La Source, the pair made heavy contact and resulted in Verstappen retiring when his track rod failed into Eau Rouge. It's not the first poor start in recent rounds, with Verstappen fighting back to win at the Austrian GP after falling from pole position to P8 off the line. Asked to...
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