Why Red Bull fear Lewis Hamilton, not Charles Leclerc as Max Verstappen’s main challenger in F1 2023
Ferrari were Red Bull’s closest challengers in 2022, before fa🦂♋lling off in the second half of the season.
Red Bull won 10 of the remaining 11 races🎃 to dominate both championships.
Ferrari failed to make the most of their superior car in the first half of the year as reliability and poor strategy choices hampere💦d their title challenge.
Mercedes struggled with outright performance but slowly turned it around, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell ending their win droughtꦕ at the 2022 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Looking ah👍ead to 2023, M👍arko explained why Red Bull are more fearful of Mercedes.
“I would say that we should fear Mercedes more [in 20♍23],” said Marko. “Mainly because the♌y have an advantage over Ferrari in terms of strategy and reliability.”
Re🍷d Bull enjoyed their most dominant year to date in terms of ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrace wins and points scored.
However, Marko dismissed suggestions that it was similar to Mercedes’ dominant start to the start of the V6 hybꦑrid era in 2014.
“Our situation is certa🅰inly no﷽t like that of Mercedes at the beginning of the hybrid era,” Marko added.
“We don’t have an immense lead with the engine right now. So that is very differe൲nt. Mercedes had at least 50bhp margin over all the others back then.
“And we shouldn’t forget: 2022 has been the first year under this new set ofဣ regulations.
“Oth﷽er teams have obviously seen what we have done with this year’s car. So I think it will definitely be much closer next season.”
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