Red Bull boss Christian Horner has suggested Red Bull’s margin over the rest of the F1 field was “exaggerated” by their choice🥀 to use the soft tyre in the second stint of Bahrai🅘n Grand Prix.

The reigning champions kicked off 2024 in dominant fashi🌳on with a 1-2 finish - their first since the 2023 Italian Grand Prix.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen dominated the race in Bahrain from pole position, winning by over 20 seconds, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez recovered from fifth to secure sec🌌ond ahead of th🎀e two Ferraris.

It means F1 could be set for another year of Red Bull domination, just afte🃏r they nearly went through the entire 2023 campaign invincible.

However, Horner thinks the field w෴ill “converge” as the season prog🌼resses.

“Again, I’ve been in this business too long to draw too ♏many conclusions from a single race,” he said. “It’s a fantastic start, we’l💃l enjoy this moment, maximum points score.

“But it’s a long season, many different venues, dif🐟ferent challenges, different conditions. And what we saw in the testing is that things are close📖r.

“Now we got it ri💎ght this weekend, we took the right cars into the race, we executed a perfect race with both cars and we got a great finish. But I think that it will converge.”

Red Bull were the only team to finish in the top 10 to switch to the softs for the final stint for the race whereas their rivals opted for haไrds again.

Horner felt𝓰 that tyre choice handed Red Bull a significant advantage and made the gap bigger than it actually is.

“Yeah but look, everything’s relative, isn’t it? I think Checo came from P5, Max was obviously managing the ra✱ce as many dr🐎ivers are managing different tires at different times,” he added.

“It’s not a que𝄹stion of how much you win, it’s a question𝕴 about winning, and we won today, Max dominated the race, he was in a class of his own.

“Checo drove an outstanding race as well, coming through the field from fifth on the grid, fastest lap, I think the back end of the race was exaggerated ܫby the offset of tires that we carried in, I’m surprised others didn’t carry softs into the race when it♔ was clearly, in these conditions, the better tire to have.”