Max Verstappen not ruling out race victory

Max Verstappen is not ruling out the possibility of a race win on Sunday.

Red Bull took a win last time out at Malaysia due to the misfortunes of both Mercedes drivers but hopes to this time beat them on pure pace.

“I think it's one of the best Fridays so far,” the Dutchman, who was fourth fastest, said. “Everything seemed to work really well, the car handling is good, long run pace was good. I think we are quite happy but of course we still have work to do.” 

“At the moment the possibility very strong [to challenge for the win] so we will try to be close and hopefully with some rain tomorrow that could help us.” 

Verstappen is also hoping for a downpour to occur on Sunday as he know that will heavily boost his chances of a victory.

“In the wet we have even more of a chance to do a good job, so yeah, rain, I would like that. Hopefully we can be close to the Mercedes cars.”

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