168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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 crushinꦛg 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez by 22.457 seconds and finished 25s clear of the first non-Red Bull car, Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.

The nearest Mercedes of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell was 46.788s adrift of Versta🌃ppen at the end of the 57-lap race.

Despite his commandingꦫ margin of victory, Verstappen believes Red Bull’s rivals are closer than they were in 202ꦫ3.

"I also think that in general, other tꦚeams are closer,” Verst﷽appen said.

“I just think tha♍t today, everything just worked really, really well. And I of course don't expect that to happen in every single Grand𝓰 Prix in the coming, in the near future.

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

After qualifying, 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,” Verstappen said.

“But from🥃 our side, it was definitely not expected to be half a second ahead, for sure not. But yeah, it was probably a biไt better than I thought today.”

And ဣVerstappen does not expect Red Bull to be as dominant at༒ next weekend’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 degr𝐆adation. Naturally, probably that w💛ill help other teams as well, compared to us.

“It seems like 🧔for us always, it's better to have these kinds of trac♍ks. So I don't expect that to be easy.”

Asked if he is expect♕ing a straightforward season ahead, Verstappen, who won 19 of the 22 races in 2023, replied: “Well, I don't really think about that.

“You kno🍸w, I go race by race because there are so many different scenarios. 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 ꦬfrom this race onwards and then look at Jeddah, how we prepare there. But I'm not looking ahead too much.”