Max Verstappen delayed his flight to Saudi Arabia, missing media duties and arriving on the Friday having been struck down with a stomach illness ahead of the Grand Prix week. Red Bull’s key advisor Helmut Marko has confidently claimed that Max Verstappen will return to “maximum performance” at the Australian Grand Prix after his illness hampered his pre-race training ahead of Saudi Arabia. Verstappen had an early exit from the qualifying session in Jeddah when a driveshaft issue forced him to accept P15 on the grid, although that didn’t stop him securing P2 on Sunday. “Max was not 100 percent,” Marko told German publication F1 Insider. READ: Christian Horner in difficult...
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