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 t💧he W14 aꦺnd team principal Toto Wolff revealed that the entire concept must change.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell later admitte🔯d that he expects Red Bull to win every race and he believes the title to aꦇlready be theirs.
Yet Mercedes’ two key rivals are not overlo𝔉oking them in the same way.
“It’s race one and we don’t have to do any conclusion,” Ferrari ꦉteam principal🍌 Fred Vasseur said after Bahrain.
“I think t♕hat 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 Jed🦩dah if we h☂ave 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 failure, having already taken on a new energy store before♎ the race, in a stunning return to the reliability 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 also not co🔯ndemning Merc📖edes just yet.
“After 🃏one race, it’s difficult to say,” Helm🍌ut Marko said.
“There are still many compe🔯titors left. I also believe that Mercedes will become better throughout theಞ season.”
Team principal Christiaꩲn Horner⛎ added: “I’ve been around long enough to see things change so quickly.
“I think these cars are still relative🌟ly immature and, a🔜s teams develop and upgrades come, things will change.
“I think the operating windows of these cars is very narrow and every team in the top three looks like it has developed its own theme. One team [Aston Martin] has adopted our theme and it made a g💎ain.
“So I guess at one point it is going to converge and that can haඣppen during a season.”
The second race of 2023 is the F1 Saud🐟i Arabian Grand Prix on March 19.
⛎James was a🌌 sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
