The competitiveness of the Red Bull ജhas been hit with major questions after the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.

The fir꧙st race with the new regulation clamping down on flexi-wings made little difference to McLaren, who secured their first 1-2 finish of 2025.

Meanwhile, an angry 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen clashed with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell leadin𒀰g to a time penalty which demoted him to 10th.

He left the paddock questioning whether he was even able to contend for the drivers’ title against 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris.

“Maybe the moment he gave up, in a way, ♐his options,” Spanish journalist Jesús Balseiro told the F1 Nation podcast 💜in Barcelona.

“I spok꧅e to another driver who knows about fighting with a less competitive ♛car, Fernando Alonso.

“He was saying that maybe this was a relieꩵf that [Max] doesn’t have to fight anymore with worse arms for something which may be 🐈impossible against these McLarens.

“It d💧oesn’t look smart t🍸o lose a P5 on merit which could have been a P3.

“I don’t understand why Max was that mad.

“The situation with Red Bull, having a set of hard ♛tyres and having to give ba🎉ck the position… maybe this was a situation which wasn’t well played by Red Bull.”

'Where will Red Bull be close' to McLaren?

Julianne Cerasoli added a stern warning: “We will look back at this grand prix and think it was when things started to go really wrong for Red Bull.

“This track has a lot of fast corners. They wer🉐e doing well in the fast corners, before.

“Saudi, Japan, Imola - they seemed able to fight McLaren in the fast corners꧃. Here? Fasꦜt corners but medium speed.

“I was really surprised by the gap in qualifying, three tenths🐲. And the gap in the race too.

“Put that in Max’s account for frustration.

“Everyone expected Red Bull to be closer to McLa♈ren here. And if they’re not close here, then where wiꦓll they be close?”

Verstappen later 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:apologised for his part in the clash with Russell.

Christian Horner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:revealed that Verstappe✱n expressed regrꦡet in their team debrief, too.

But questions have also been asked of Red Bull surrounding their tyre strategy, and their decision to tell Verstappeඣn to let Russell thro🅘ugh.

But an even bigger headache surrounds the performance of the RB21 compared to F1’s fastest car, which i🅠s in McLaren’s garage.

Starkly, Versta﷽ppen’s teammate ꦅYuki Tsunoda qualified last in Barcelona.

Red Bull🌳 have sunk to fourth in the constructors’ behind McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari who each have two drivers capable of scoring points.