“Weird” that Red Bull is “protesting so loudly” in F1 engine defence - Wolff
Honda introduced its second power unit at the French Grand Prix as Red Bull enjoyed i🍰mpressive straight-line speed performance across the weekend on its way to claiming its third straight victory over Mercedes and a fourth win of 2021.
That led to suggestions from Lewis Hamilton that Red Bull had managed to 168ꩲ澳洲5最新开奖结果:take a step forward with its “upgrade” despite engines being homologated thisꦚ season, allowing only for reliability enhancements.
On Friday at ♌the Styrian Grand Prix, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner dismissed Hamilton’s recent theories as being “some way from reality”, insisting his outfit’s gains on the straights had come from running a low-drag and low-downforce configuration at Paul Ricard.
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After taking a commanding pole position in Austria, Max Verstappen hit back at a question about Red Bull’s engine performance by saying he wants to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“print out” proof that its superior 📖straight-line compared to Mercedes is related to rear wing levels.
Speaking after qualifying, Wolff admitted he is ꦛ“really surpri🧸sed” how Red Bull has responded to questions about its power unit.
✤“I wonder why t🥂hat is such a topic when we all know that the power units need to be homologated,” Wolff said.
“And I’m really surprised that the Red Bull guys keep protesting so lཧoudly on the power unit story. So that is🍨 a bit weird.
“The rules🌠 are very c🌃lear. It’s homologated, you can come up with reliability fixes, and that’s it.
“Obviously there are certain things you can clean up, but you have your tokens and you need to use them, and that’s it. So there shouldn’t𓄧 be a🏅ny power advantage as such."
While Wolff admitted thꦯat Red Bull has “the faster package at the moment”,ꦚ he stressed it is not only down to them boasting a straight-line speed advantage.
“It’s always the interaction between a strong power unit, lots of downforce and maki🌼ng the tyres work,” he explained. “And I think they are just doing a very good job.
“We’ve already se🧸en it in Ricard where ꦑthey were able to run a smaller wing whilst not losing a lot through the twisty bit. So overall, just a very strong package.”
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