In the space of three years, things can change at full speed, especially in Formula 1. At the start of the 2022 season, Red Bull and Ferrari competed for the head of the championship, while in 2025, McLaren and Mercedes trusses the first places. At the time, Scuderia was mocked for its failed strategies, which cost a substantial number of points to Charles Leclerc, unable to deprive Max Verstappen of a second consecutive title.
However, three years later, the winning machine that Red Bull was lost with its watchful precision, while the Scuderia has finally solved all its execution problems. Lewis Hamilton succeeded during the Sprint race in Miami, a perfect stands stop in 2 ”0, which allowed him to take third place in the event.
Meanwhile, it was in this same way of the stands that Max Verstappen lost all his chances of finishing in the points: passed to his garage to put on slick gums, the quadruple world champion was released … battery at the time when the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli arrived. The Batavian left a piece of fin there, while the Italian could not stop in front of his mechanics and had to return the next round.
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Red Bull’s error is expensive in Verstappen
This error, to which Max Verstappen can do nothing, cost the winner of the last GP in Japan a 10 -second penalty which made him finish 17th and last of the classified pilots. A new adventure that attests to the procrastination of Red Bull to the stands this year: which was once a force of the red bull has turned into a disabled weakness.
“They were all different”, nuance Verstappen when evoking these various incidents in the path of the stands, in particular that of Bahrain, where the flashing lights supposed to give the pilots the start no longer worked. “We can’t really compare these situations. None of us wants it to happen, but it happened ”continues the Dutch at the microphone of Sky Sports.
“This is something that we have to examine. On the other hand, I am just relieved that no one was injured. With these cars, if you touch someone, it’s not ideal. It was very clear what happened, so I don’t have much to add »he concludes.
His boss, Christian Horner, pointed out “ a human error “And promised that his team was going” learn from it ». With Alpine and Sauber, Red Bull is one of the only three teams not to have marked the slightest point during the Sprint race.
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