168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen insists “other teams are closer” to Red Bull despite his dominant victory at the F1 season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

Red Bull’s three-time world champion delivered a crushing✃ statement to his rivals by romping to a convincing win in Bahrain to make the perfect start to his F1 title defence.

Verstappen led home teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez by 22.457 seconds and finished 25s clear of the first non-Red Bull car, Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz.

The nearest Mercedes of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell 🦋was 46.788s adrift of Verstappen at the end of the 57-lap race.

Despite hℱis commanding m🉐argin of victory, Verstappen believes Red Bull’s rivals are closer than they were in 2023.

"🍬I also think that in general, other teams are closer,” Verstappen said.

“I just think that today, everything just worked really, reall🎶y well. And I of course don't expect that to happe🎀n in every single Grand Prix in the coming, in the near future.

“So still, we take it, we𝔍 look back at it, of course, we a൲nalyse it, and we'll try to improve further.”

After qu🍒alifying, Russell had suggested Red Bull would have at least half a second a lap in hand in race pace.

“I don't know how they [Mercedes] approach their long runs, you know, with fuel loads and whatever,” Ver♋stappen said.

“But fr🌟om our side, it was definitely not expected to be half a second ahead, for sure not. But yeah, it was prob🌺ably a bit better than I thought today.”

And Verstappen does not expect Red Bull to be as dominant at next weeꦦkend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

“It🌊's a completely different track layout, with a lot🃏 more high-speed corners,” Verstappen added.

“The tarmac, of course, is completely different to what it is here, so💫 ✃less degradation. Naturally, probably that will help other teams as well, compared to us.

“It seems like for us always, it's bet♕ter to have these kinds of tracks. So I don𓃲't expect that to be easy.”

Asked if he is expecting a straig🥂htforward season ahead, Verstappen, who won 19 of the 22 races 🅷in 2023, replied: “Well, I don't really think about that.

“You know, I go race by race bec🍌ause there are so many different scenari𝓡os. And this is a very particular track as well. Probably one of our strongest anyway.

“So I don't want🐽 to think about these kinds of things yet. I just want to now focus on what to improve from this race onwards and then look at Jeddah, how we prepare there. But I'm not looking ahead too much.”