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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton had bemoaned the W14 and team principal Toto Wolff revealed tꦺhat the entire concept must change.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell later admitted that h🐭e expects Red Bull to win every race and he believes the title ♏to already be theirs.
Yet Mercedes’ t🔥wo 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 Vasseur said after Bahrain.
“I think that Mercedes will wake up soon. We don’t know what will happen next week🍌. The next race will be a different story in Jeddah, with a different tarmac.
“So let’s see in Jeddꦕah if we have a better picture.”
Ferrari have their own problems - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc retired from the first race of 2023 with a suspected power unit fai𒁏lure, having already taken on a new energy store before the race, in a stunning return to the reliabi🤡lity woes that blighted last season.
Red Bull, whose star man 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen sauntered to victory in Bahrain from pole position, are ꧑a💟lso not condemning Mercedes just yet.
“After one race, it’s difficult to s🅺ay,” Helmut Marko said.
“Therౠe are still many competitors left. I also believe that Mercedes will become better throughout the season.”
Team principal Christ𒅌ian Horner added: “I’ve been around꧋ long enough to see things change so quickly.
“I think these cars are still r⭕elatively immature and, as teams develop and upgrad𒁃es come, things will change.
“I think the operating windows of these cars is very narrow and every team in the ꦫtop three looks like it has developed its own theme. One team [Aston Martin] has adopted our theme and it made a gain.
“So I guess at one poinౠt it is going to converge and that can happen during a season.”
The second race of 2023 is the F1 Saudi Arabian Gran𒅌d Prix on March 19.
James was a sports jou๊rnalist at Sky Sports for a de🎉cade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
