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Verstappen says bad start was because of team error

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen says his slow getaway from the grid of the Italian Grand Prix was because his RB12 was set up "too aggressively". Verstappen was seventh on the grid, but the anti-stall system kicking in at the start meant he dropped back to 12th. He managed to reclaim some of the lost places in the opening laps and eventually returned to seventh by the time chequered flag flew. “I carried out the normal start procedure, but the RPM went down too far because the team had set the car a bit too aggressively”, Verstappen told Dutch TV program Peptalk on Monday evening. “Instead of stalling like a normal road car would do, we have a program in the engine that makes...
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