Verstappen retired within the opening phases of the final race in Melbourne after his brakes overheated – with it showing that the pad had jammed on to the disc as a result of of an concern associated to the caliper.
While there was no detailed rationalization from Red Bull about what precisely occurred to set off the failure, numerous theories have emerged.
One thought is that the wrongdoer was the failure of the workforce to tighten a screw that was crucial to the brake caliper working appropriately.
Verstappen added credence to that concept at Suzuka on Thursday when he advised that it was more a procedural drawback than a design fault.
“It wasn’t really a problem in the end, but you have to secure it properly, of course,” he stated. “The procedures will be changed a bit to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Red Bull chief engineer Paul Monaghan has defined, nevertheless, that the state of affairs was more difficult than that.
He stated that it concerned a chain of occasions that had probably kicked off as early as when additional work was required following Verstappen’s off in FP1.
“As I’ve seen many times when cars retire from the race, a sequence of events has occurred in an appropriate order that has triggered it,” he stated.
“You can virtually hint it back into what started on Friday. Saturday, there have been unclear hints possibly there was one thing amiss, however there was nothing that stood out to say that is going to allow you to down. So, it was many issues.
“If you possibly can stop the sequence, you’ll stop the issue. So, there are little modifications in place to try to interrupt that sequence for that particular occasion. And it is relevant to all of the automotive, in that if there’s a sequence of occasions that results in a race retirement, you attempt to interrupt it earlier than you get them.
“So, I’m not going to say to you it’s a process or anything else. Everybody will do their best to ensure we break that sequence.”
Monaghan defined that some short-term fixes had been in place for the Japanese GP, whereas different facets would observe down the highway.
“There are some subtle changes in there,” he stated. “It’s truly fairly a long-term course of to try to deal with the recent air ducts.
“Clearly we’re not seeking a repeat, so yes what fixes can be applied since Australia are on and there are more longer-term ones coming as and when we can revise the parts.”
But regardless of work persevering with on the matter, Monaghan expressed some confidence that there could be no repeat concern.
Asked if such a drawback might occur again, he stated: “I doubt it, no.”
Additional reporting by Ronald Vording
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