168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen believes Red Bull’s 2025 F1 car represents a step forward.

Red Bull were hampered by poor mid-season development and balance issues with their RB2🉐0 but despite slipping to third place in the constructors’ championship, Verstappen was still ab🦋le to clinch a fourth successive drivers’ title.

Having driven the RB21 during the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain, Verstappen is confident Red Bull’s latest F1 chall🌃✱enger is an improvement on its predecessor.

“It can’t be worse than last year. So I thi🧔nk the direction that we are working into is good,” Verstappen said on day two of the test.

“We just need to follow that and see how much we can extract. At the moment, it’s really early days - a lot of ജthings we a🌱re still discussing and wanting to improve.

“But yesterday I enjoyed it and thaꦇt’s already a big difference to last year.”

The Dutchman, who was not involved on Thursday as Red Bull teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson got a full day of running, added: “For myself and the team, at some point last year we knew somღething was up.

“Of course a few things have to be addressed and that’s why quite a few things have changed. So 𒁃I give my feedback on what I need - the car needs to go faster and that’s what we try to apply.

“I think the team learned a lot from last year. We tried to solve those problems and now ꦡwe have to see how the car performs in Australia, ﷺwhich is another completely different circuit [to Bahrain].”

Have Red Bull addressed previous problems?

Red Bull motorsport൲ advisor Helmut Marko claimed on Wednesday that the team have found solutions to the problems which dogged the RB20.

"The car is more predictable and ꧃reacts to the changes in the normal way,” he said on day one. “So, all the problems we had last year, I believe they are much better, or maybe they are also so♔rted.

"Max says the car is more complex and is more pu♔t together, and whatever they do on changes, the car is reacting in the right way. On his fastest lap, he had a little problem, so it could have been [quicker]. But anyway, we say that long runs were really impressive and our tyre wear was very good.

“The car has the wider range and is more🅷 predictable 🐓for the drivers.”

Speaking to F1TV oඣn day two, Red Bull tea൩m principal Christian Horner appeared to confirm that the issues with their 2024 car have now been fixed.

"At the moment, the data ties 🔜in with our simulations," Horner explained. “We have u🅠nderstood some of the limitations of RB20 and the team have worked hard to try and address those.

|Last year, we had a car that on occasion was very quick, winning races and sprints and getting more pole positions than anyone else, bu🅷t it was very sensitive and to extract ಞperformance was difficult.

"Both drivers are now reporting that it is easier🥂 to drive."