The introduction of Pirelli’s new 18-inch tyres last ye💛ar seemed to bring an understeer characteristic🌱 that Verstappen isn’t a fan of.

Combined with Red Bull’s 2🧸022𒁃 car being overweight, Verstappen struggled to extract the most from the RB18, particularly in qualifying.

Pirelli have already confirmed that they have made cha🐎nges to their front tyres for 2023 in a bid to red﷽uce understeer.

Verstappen noto꧂riously likes a car ‘on the nose’, with a pointer front-end m🐼eaning the rear is more unstable.

It’s a preference that makes him incredibly fast, and something most of his teammates - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly - have struggled with.

Speakin🔥g at the launch of Red Bull’s 2023 F1 car - the RB19 - Verstappen believes the new tyres from Pirelli are “a little i♏mprovement”.

“Yeah, the big issue last year was not specifically the tyres, it was just the weight of the car,” he said. “It was very massively over and that create🐓s a lazy behaviour on the front. Basically, once we started to get rid of that weight, the ca♊r became more agile.

“And that's how the car is gಞonna go quick, because I've never sat in a car with understeer which is fast in my life in 🍃any category.

“With the new tyres from Pirelli, I do think it's a little impro♎vement. Of course, we only tested it fully in Abu Dhabi and we have to see it on every single track as well to see if it works everywhere.

“Because eveജry tarmac and track condition, especially the weather, it influences a lot. But I'm confident that everything will be heading into the right direction.”

As Pirelli get ready for the new season, a num🐈ber🌸 of teams have been testing for the Italian company.

Mercedes were in action last week at the Circu🃏it Paul Ricard across two days of testinꦆg.

AlphaTauri took over on Friday and Saturday, tes🥀ting 𓆏Pirelli’s wet weather tyres.

This week, Mercedes and Astꩲon Martin were at Jerez testing 🤪for Pirelli again.