A sudden turnaround of the F1 formbook occurred last time out in Singapore as Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz capitalised on Red Bull’s rare lack of co൲mpetitiveness to claim the only non-Red Bull win of 2023. 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen and168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Sergio Perez could only 🧸salvage a fifth and eighth place finish as the Marina Bay Street Circuit exposed unknown weaknesses of Red Bull’s previously📖 unbeaten RB19 challenger. 

But Mercedes, who also suffered from unusual performance slumps in Singapore during their own spell of F1 dominance, do not expect Red Bull’s p🍸ace to be hampered again.

"The problem that we had was actually quite specific to the old set of regulat✅ions and how the car was working aerodynamically,” Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said at the Japanese Grand Prix. 

“It's very bad for overheating, it’s a street t💦rack, it's quite bumpy. If the drivers ha💫ven't got confidence, that will always rob quite a lot of lap time off them. 

“And in particular, it's really hard to keep your rear tyres under control because of all those traction zones. Sඣo, it's quite a ಌnuanced circuit. 

“But you know, we've had one really, really difficult year there, it was very good for learning and probably you'd say Red Bull will find the same: that they'll get t🎃o the bottom of what went wrong, and it won't be a mistake that'll happen agai𒁏n.” 

Indeed, Red Bull dispelled any suggestions they might suffer something of a performance hangover🤪 as Verstappen comfortably topped both Friday practice sessions at Suzuka. 

“I don't think we expected it to be such a big challenge as it proved to be,” R♑ed Bull team principal Christian Horner said o🅘f his side’s Singapore woes. 

“And I think we ended up in a window with 𓄧the car, set-up-wise, that was suboptimal. I think we have recovered, to a degree, for the Grand🤪 Prix, for the race. 

“Unfortunately, when you get into a situation like that, the Safety Car 🌠came out at just the wrong time fꦜor us, and then the VSC, almost even worse.

“So I think without that, actually, we'd have been in that group fighting for a podium at the end of the race, but it wasn't to be and, you know, the others did a great 🐭job, better than us. So, you know, we brush ourselves down and go again, here.” 

Horner added: “There's never a silver bullet with any of these thꦑings. It's a combination of how is your interaction with aerodynamics and 🔯mechanical set-up; it interacts, obviously, with the tyres and the layout of the circuit. 

“I think it is a combination or how you run the෴ combination of your set-up. And I think we'd be probably a little different to where we started. And yeah, I think there's a lot of lessons that we've taken out of that.”