“When you go to Melbourne you know a little bit when you have oversteer or understeer, what direction you have to go into.”

Verstappen spun twice on Sunday morning, with the second incident leaving the Dutchman in the gravel and needing to be recovered.

He admits he could have avoided the second spin had he spotted a wet part of the Circuit de Catalunya track.

“Regarding the spin I had this morning, I had a look back at the footage and I just clipped a little damp patch, which I didn’t see, but yeah, I think I just tried to take a little too much road on the entry,” Verstappen said.

Verstappen and Red Bull have one day of on-track testing left before making their way Down Under for March 15’s Australian Grand Prix.