Why Red Bull fear Lewis Hamilton, not Charles Leclerc as Max Verstappen’s main challenger in F1 2023
Ferrari were Red Bull’s closest c𝔉hallengers in 2022, before falling off in the second half of the s𒈔eason.
Red Bull won 10 of the remaining 11 races to dominate both championships🧸.
Ferrari failed to make the most of🌃 their superior car in the first half of the year as reliabili♊ty and poor strategy choices hampered their title challenge.
Mercedes struggled with outright performance but slowly turned it around, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell ending their win drought♊ at the 2022 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Looking ahead to 2023, Mar𒁏ko explained why Red Bull are more fearful of Mercedes.
“I would say that we should fear Me🐭rcedes more [in 2023],” said Marko. 🍌“Mainly because they have an advantage over Ferrari in terms of strategy and reliability.”
Red Bull enjoyed their most dominant year to date in🌳 terms of race wins and points scored.
Howeverℱ, Marko dismissed suggestions that it was similar to Mercedes’ domin🐓ant start to the start of the V6 hybrid era in 2014.
“Our situation is certainly not l🗹ike that of Mercedes at the beginning of the hಌybrid era,” Marko added.
“We don’t have an immense lead with the engine right now. So that is very different.💧 Mercedes had at least 50bhp margin over all the others back then.
“And we shouldn’t forget: 2022 has been the first year under th👍is new set of regulations.
“Other teams have obviously seen what we have done with this year’s car. So I think it will definitely ♔be muc😼h closer next season.”
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