Red Bull and Ferrari see eye-to-eye on one key issue - don’t write off Mercedes
Even before their uncompetitive stint at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton had bemoaned the W14 and team principal Toto Wolff revealed that the entir🍃e concept must change.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell later admitted that he expects Red Bu🅷ll to win e🀅very race and he believes the title to already be theirs.
Yet♏ Me🐎rcedes’ two key rivals are not overlooking them in the same way.
“It’s race one and we don’t have to do any conclusion,” Ferrari team principal🍎 Fred Vass༒eur said after Bahrain.
“I think that Mercedes will wake up soon. We do⛎n’t know whaꦐt will happen next week. The next race will be a different story in Jeddah, with a different tarmac.
“So let’s see in Jeddah if we have a beܫtter picture.”
Ferrari have their own problems - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc retired from the first race of 2023 with a suspected power unit failure, having already taken on a new energy store🍨 before the race, in a stunning return to the reliability woes that blighted last season.
Red Bull, whose star man 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen sauntered to victory in Bahrain from pole position, are also not condemning Merce𝓀des justꦕ yet.
“After ౠone race, it’s difficult to say♏,” Helmut Marko said.
“🦄There are still many competitors left. I also believe that Mercedes will become better throughout the season.”
Team principal Christian Horner added: “I’ve been around long eno🌺ugh to see things change so quickly.
“I think these cars are still relativ🍷ely im🐎mature and, as teams develop and upgrades come, things will change.
“I think the operating windows of these cars is very narrow and every team in the top three looks like it has developed its own theme. One team [Aston Martin𓆏] has adopted our theme and it made a gain.
“So I guess at🍌 one point it is going to converge and that can happen 🥂during a season.”
The second race of 2023 is the F1♔ Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on March 19.
Jam🥀es was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
