No more video games. Red Bull F1’s solution to Max Verstappen’s problems is the same thing your father told you

No more playing video games until the wee hours of the night. This is the solution that many parents and grandparents have given their children throughout history, and it is what Helmut Marko imposed on Max Verstappen after the Hungarian Grand Prix debacle. Red Bull has banned Verstappen from playing video games.

Many voices attributed Verstappen’s irritability during the Hungarian Grand Prix, in addition to his mistakes, to the fact that heHe stayed up until three in the morning playing video gamesWell, it seems that Red Bull also believes that this is the problem, and they have banned them.

Verstappen stayed up playing video games until 3am in Hungary

“He won’t play video games again until this late”. That was the decisive decision taken by Red Bull after the Hungarian Grand Prix, as expressed by Helmut Marko, the Dutchman’s great supporter. Verstappen stayed up until three in the morning with his simulations, and then in Hungary what happened happened.

“Max Verstappen was quite irascible this weekend and it is normal that criticism was not long in coming. It is not surprising, since He spends half the night playing simracing“Marko continued to explain. What is increasingly evident is that there is a gap between Red Bull and Verstappen.

It is usual that, at the same time there is a Formula 1 Grand Prix, Verstappen embarks on endurance racing in his simulatorssometimes even 24 hours. In Hungary he had to do a night shift, something that also happened in Imola, although in that case he did win the Formula 1 race afterwards.

“His night simulation session over the weekend in Hungary only came about because one of his team’s drivers retired from the race. Max has a different sleep rhythm and slept seven hours“, concluded Marko to try to put a patch on Verstappen’s behaviour.

What is clear is that while Red Bull had a car that allowed them to go for a stroll, Verstappen could afford all kinds of frivolities. But with McLaren lurking just 51 points behind in the constructors’ championship and Lando Norris not far behind in the drivers’ championship, Red Bull has panicked.

We will see if, in addition to demanding more from their drivers, they also improve a car that is falling behind and some strategies that were sung at the Hungaroring.