Red Bull have earmarked two F1 rivals the team believes they arꦇe currently lagging behind heading into the 2025 season.

Following a mixed three days of pr🐻e-season testing in which the team completed the least number of laps, Red Bull admitted the Bahrain test was “notꦑ as smooth” as they expected.

Neither 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen or teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Liam Lawson were able to complete a full race distance in Re🧔d Bull’s new RB21 challenger, which looked a handful to drive at times.

And Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache reckons both McLaren and Ferrari head inꦆto the season🦋-opening Australian Grand Prix in better shape than his side.

"I think it will be tight," Wache told . "At the ♕moment it doesn't look like we ar🌳e quick enough, but after we will see. It looks like McLaren and Ferrari are quicker."

After the opening day of running in Bahrain, Red Bull confidently stated that the RB21 offered positive signs that꧅ the team had fixed the issues which dogged their 2024 car.

But Wache says Red Bull still ha🐭vꦉe work to do to get the RB21 into a sweet spot.

"We have some feedback that is as we expect, in terms of💧 how the car reacts and in terms of balance. There are more flatter characteristics than the peakiness [from last year],” he explained.

"But I think we still have work to do on how to use the potential of it. It is difficult to rebalance th🦹e car cur𒁏rently, but we are exploring different solutions.

"The first day was OK. [The second day], we didn't find a sweet spot. And we also had some issues. So it is difficult to say in terms of competitiveness at t🌳he moment.”

Just how different is Red Bull’s new F1 car?

Desp❀ite being simཧilar to its predecessor, the RB20, in appearance, Red Bull’s 2025 car has notably different characteristics, Wache stressed.

“To be competitive, you have to extract the poꦕtential of it at one point in terms of how you use it,” he said.

"What it [the changes for 2025] gives 🧔us is a little bit more option to rebalance it. It is taking more time to understand what is your best option, and I think that is the process we are in at the moment.

"I think it's more different than what we saw between RB19 and RB20 in terms of characteristic. After the end of the season of t🍸he RB19, there was an evꦜolution. The shape [of the RB20] was massively different, but it was the same concept type.

"Now, clearly, the way we extract the speed, the char🦂acteristic of the car, is quit🦋e different.”