168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen will be “very difficult to manage” if he isn’t given a competitive car, Red Bull have been warned by a former F1 team principal.

That is the view of ex-💮Haas team boss Guenther Steiner, who believes four-time world champion Verstappen will be unhappy if Red Bull fail to provide him with a car capable of winning the world championship.

Verstappen goes into 2025 seeking to win a fifth consecutive drivers’ world title but McLaren and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris will start the season as e✃arly favourites after their strong end to last year.

Steiner pointed to oc💃casions in 2024 when Verstappen “reacted aggressively” to his team when his Red Bull car was plagued by balance issue𒁏s around the mid-way stage of last season.

The Dutchman endured a 10-race streak without a victory amid Red Bull’s competitive struggles before returning to winning ways in Brazil, and going on to clinch the championship with 👍two races to spare.

“I would say last year, whe🎐n he start🎉ed not to win, he reacted, pretty aggressively,” Steiner told CNN.

“But then at some stage, I think he realised, ‘I need to be smart about this and just take home as many points as I ಌcan, even if I’m not winning a race’. So we need ♓to see which Max we get.

“But for sure, if he hasn’t got a good car where he can win, h🔥e will get very difficult to manage as well, I would say, because he will be vocal about it that he’s not▨ happy. And an unhappy Max is not a nice Max, as we all know.

“But he’s a very good driver, I think the best in the moment. 🌼And for sure, he will put his effort in to win races, to win the championship again, but it will not🐠 be easy, as we saw last year.”

How would Steiner deal with Verstappen?

ꦫRed Bull are heading into the season opener in Australia off the back of a mixed Bahrain pre-season test, which the team admitted did not go as smoothly a⛎s they expected. 

Steiner was ✱asked how he would manage Verstappen if things were not going Red Bull’s way.

“To stay calm, but don’t throw the t💙oys out of the pram after two races꧙ if it doesn’t go your way,” he replied.

“‘If it is not in our way, in the b🐬eginning of the season, we need to work hard to get back where we want to be’, you know, because getting impatient and complaining doesn’t help a team, doesn’t put the team together, and obvioꦓusly that is what you need when you’re not competitive.

“But first of all, I would say, ‘just let’s wait to see where 🌊we are at and then we see where we want to go, and where we can go’.”