F1 Spanish GP Turn 4 error “really caught me by surprise”

Verstappen stormed into the championship lead after taking the victory at Barcelona while erstwhile tabletopper Charles Leclerc retired from the lead of the race with a power unit problem.

But the early stages of the grand prix did not go to plan for Verstappen as an error at Turn 4 when he was running second dropped him back behind George Russell’s Mercedes and the sister Red Bull of Sergio Perez.

Verstappen lost the rear of the car running through the right-hander and was…