Max Verstappen says Pink Bull put itself within the battle with Lando Norris by doing “every little thing improper” in an “terrible” Austrian Grand Prix.

Polesitter Verstappen appeared set to dominate proceedings on the Pink Bull Ring, increase an eight-second hole, till a string of slower pitstops introduced second-placed Norris again into placing vary.

Norris then loved a tyre life benefit within the last stint that allowed him to reel Verstappen in and battle the Pink Bull driver for the lead, which led to tears on Lap 64 with a collision at Flip 3.

Each drivers pitted for rear-tyre punctures however in Norris’s case, the harm to his McLaren was too extreme to proceed, whereas Verstappen completed fifth regardless of a 10-second penalty for inflicting the contact.

Verstappen rued Pink Bull doing “every little thing improper” throughout the race with its race technique and pitstop execution, which he felt gave Norris an opportunity to place him below strain within the first place.

“The primary stint was fairly good, however on the finish I caught fairly a little bit of site visitors, which we should always have simply boxed for me as a result of I simply gave up free lap time,” he defined.

“We principally did loads of issues improper right this moment. It began with the technique, then the pitstops had been a catastrophe. The primary one was already dangerous, the second was much more of a catastrophe.

“That is six seconds over these two pitstops that you just give away, after which in fact it is a race once more.

“And that is why I feel additionally we put ourselves in that place. We did every little thing improper that we may have completed improper. At the moment has simply been terrible.”

Verstappen was additionally puzzled why after such a robust first half of the race his automobile’s driving behaviour deteriorated to the purpose the place he felt it was “undriveable” within the last stint on scrubbed medium tyres.

“I do not know why, however the automobile simply began to grow to be worse and worse all through the race, in order that can be one thing that we’ve got to look into possibly, that one thing broke on the automobile,” he added.

“I actually don’t have any reason why abruptly the automobile simply remodeled from an okay steadiness to only undriveable behaviour afterwards, which usually signifies that one thing was additionally improper.

“However even with that, we should always have gained right this moment if we did not make so many errors as nicely with the pitstops.”