Martin Brundle has declared 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen “the favourite” heading into the 2025 F1 season despite a worrying observation a♏bou🔯t how Red Bull performed during pre-season testing.

It wasn𒀰’t an entirely straightforward three days of testing for Red Bull♋ at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Verstappen was in the RB2🍌1 for the whole final day - but diꦚdn’t complete a full race run.

Red Bull tested a number of setups and front wing co🤪mbinations to try and improve the car's balance.

The car looked far from hooked up at times, with Verstappen sp⛎inn☂ing at Turn 1.

The Dutchman was shaking his head in frustration before slamming tℱhe throttle down.

Looking ahead to the first racꦍe in Australia next week, Brundle acknowledged that the new Red Bull wasn’t “glued to t𒁏he race track”.

. “They were saying that they’ve fixed a lot of last year’s problems, but we also saw Max out on track, shaking his head once and spinning up the wheels because he was angry the car went around on him.

“I didn’t sense it  was exactly glued to the race tracᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚk but they were pretty tricky conditions in that pre-season test. For me, Max starts the season as the favourite because he will be cl𒁏ear number one in that team and Red Bull should have fixed it.

👍“He’s so fast, he’s so good. He knows how to win multiple championships - so🐷 does Lewis.

“His main rivals so far don’t know how to win any F1 world championships - Charles, George, Lando, Oscar Piast🍸ri too. I think Max should start the season [as the favourite].

“Whoever wins this year’s world championship will win a bindi🐬ng world championship.”

Red Bull expected to be behind McLaren in Australia

Tꦕhe general consensus is that Red Bull will start the yea🌊r behind McLaren.

McLaren enjoyed 🌞a strong pre-season despite both drivers struggling with r༺ear instability when behind the wheel of the MCL39.

Red Bull remain confident that they’ve ironed out some of the handling issues that plagued Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez in the latter half of last year.

Red Bull technical chief Pierre Wache has conceded that McLaren and probably Ferrari are ahead heading into Melbourne next weeken𝄹d.

“I think it will be tight,” Wache said to🌸 . “At the moment it doesn’t look like we are quick enou൩gh, but after we will see. It looks like McLaren and Ferrari are quicker.”