Between the lines

Motor Racing - Formula One World Championship - Bahrain Grand Prix - Preparation Day - Sakhir, Bahrain

Max Verstappen 

The Question: Toro Rosso, apparently, have never scored a point here in Bahrain, amazingly in their ten years. This weekend that, I’m sure, will be your target, but you do have some engine issues going into this weekend. Can you give us your thoughts on how that’s going to stack up?

What Max said: 

Yeah, for sure it’s very short notice for us after China, where we had the engine issues. But we will try to do our best to deliver a good race and try to score points, because I think at the moment the car is capable of it and I’m feeling much better every race in the car. So I’m really looking forward to this race.

What he might have meant:

The team is working exceptionally hard with Renault to get to the bottom of issues we had in Shanghai and the conclusion that we have arrived at is that this weekend it will stack up in a huge, great smoking pile of con rods, pistons, bits of turbo and fizzing electrical recovery system parts. Boooooooooooom!