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Max Verstappen: "It already felt really bad in the simulator, to the point where I didn't want to drive it. It's just the same now. I'm not happy at all. And that has nothing to do with where I qualified. Whether I was at the front or where I am now: in terms of emotion and feeling, I'm completely empty." "I have no emotion. It's completely empty," he repeats a little later. Asked if he feels it won't be a very long season: "Yes, but I've already mentally prepared myself for that." 'The formula isn't right' "You simply can't drive naturally," he explains. "You have to keep your foot on the gas as much as possible everywhere to save the battery. And you have to approach certain corners differently to save battery power on the exit. For me, this has very little to do with racing." When asked if he feels more like a manager than a driver this year, he shrugs: "You just have to make it work with what you've got. And what we have at the moment isn't very much!" Motorsport.com