Christian Horner hailed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen as “decisive” and said “he doesn’t mess about” as he won the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.

Verstappen pitted twice and eme🐷rged ahead of Lando Norris, then held off the McLaren driver’s late charge.

Verstappen started from P2, behind Norris, but had to excellently overtake George Russell who had himself cl🔜aimed a brilliant early lead of the grand prix.

Red Bull team principal Horner told Sky S👍ports: “Max drove a brilliant ra𓃲ce today. Strategically we got it just right.

“We went for an optimum race ꦛtime and it paid off.

“We knew the McLaren would come back with💃 the overlap on the tyre at the end of the r😼ace.

“We had just ꦜenough in hand. It was so decisive, the first lap was ♛crucial.

“The pass on George was even more important.”

Horner said abo🀅ut the crucial moment of Verstappen’s seventh win in 10 rounds this season: “The start was one element.

“The move he needཧed to put on George, quickly. Then༺ get the tyres under control.

“I can’t express how difficult that is. One on hand you’re telling the driver to cruise and look after the tyres, but he obviousl𒈔y went for it.

“He got the pass don♒e then executed a perfect race.

“He did it the hard way. Around the outside. Close, hard, ﷺfair racing. We were relieve🦄d to see that get done.”

Damon Hill said to Horner abou⛦t Verstappen: “That’s why he gets the ꧟big money…”

Horner said ab🍃out his star driver: “He’s so decisive. He just doesn’t mess about.

“He comes about to traffic and he’s so decisive.

“That’s one o🌸f his key qualities. If he’s there, he will go for it.🌠 And the other drivers know that.”

'Lando Norris the standout competitor'

Red Bull’s weekend in Barcelona started slowly with an indifferent p💜ractice.

Missin♏g pole position raised expect🦩ation that Verstappen could be kept away from victory again.

Horner was asked if he believed the RB20 was truly꧅ the quickest car of the weekend: “It’s tight. It’s small margins.

“The two of them were circa 18 seconds ღahead of the rest of the field.

“Lando had longevity, they went for a slightly diffe🐓rent strategy⛦.”

Verstappen, on the other h🐬and, was told to push by Red Bull with around 15 laps remaining.

“We felt, at that stage, thཧat he’d done such a good job at managing the tyres,” Horner said.

“There was only one corner that we could see where Lando was♔ quicker. That was Turn 1.

“The rest, [Max] had it covered.

“So, it was always⛄ going to ✨get closer because of the off-set in pitstops.

“But we always felt confident, from the tools that we had, that he had enough in hand💯.”

Verstappen 𓄧holds a 69-point advantage at the top of the F1 standings ahead of second-placed Nor꧙ris.

“Since꧑ Mia🍸mi, Lando has been the standout competitor,” Horner said.

“We’ve had to be at the top of our game to win theಞse races.

“They are tight wins but we keep winning.

“McLaren are do🐼ing a great job. Ferrari aren’t far away. Me🌼rcedes have made progress, as well.

“We are just keeping our nose ahead.

“It’s important we🍰 keep pushing because there is a long way to go.”

Red Bull, as last year’s winners of the drivers’ and constructors’ ch꧙ampionships, have less wind tunnel time than their rivals this season.

I💞s it a facꦕtor in Verstappen’s challenges mounting?

“It is all relative. We had a double whammy last year on the tunnel time 🌄this year,” Horner answered.

“When you run at the front the🐻re is nowhere t𓆏o hide.

“You get found out. Everything gets scrutinised. Every strategy call, ever🍷y pitstop.

“It’s a different pressure, a different philosophy that you’v♓e got to ha🐻ve.

“We’ve d𓆉one a lot of winning but haven’t lost that edge of getting it right on the day.”

Horner vowed more improvements this season: “We🌼 have tremendous strength💎 in depth in the team. And stability long-term.

“What you see now is work ♊that has been don𓂃e over the past few months. There is more to come.

“On Friday we looked like the fourth quickဣe﷽st car. The engineering team turned it around.”