Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko believes that Max Verstappen could have caught and passed Charles Leclerc for the win even if he had not suffered his mechanical failure in Spain. Leclerc began the Spanish Grand Prix on pole ahead of the Dutchman, and was leading comfortably after a gust of wind had put Verstappen in the gravel at Turn Four. The reigning champion was stuck behind George Russell as a result, but he could not find a way past due to the DRS issue that he had been suffering from all weekend. READ: Perez ‘would have won the race’ on Verstappen’s strategy Eventually, he executed a three-stop strategy to get ahead of the Briton, and passed team-mate Sergio Perez for the win...
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