Chinese GP Qualifying: Red Bull, 100 poles in F1 and Horner rejoices – News

An almost perfect Red Bull

In the Chinese morning, the Red Bull he had managed to recover from the fourth and sixth starting position of the Sprint to first place for Max Verstappen and third for Sergio Perez. The Anglo-Austrian team thus reiterated its evident superiority also in the afternoon Qualifying, where the two standard bearers of the team armored the entire front row.

100 poles

Red Bull can thus put the scoresheet on the scoresheet pole number one hundred in its history, closing a sort of perfect circle, given that the first was achieved in Shanghai in 2009 with Sebastian Vettel. Radiant Christian Hornerteam principal of the team, at the microphones of Viaplay: “We have done some changes in view of the qualifications and the car responded well. Max did an exceptional job and Checo secured the front row. This is our hundredth poleso let’s talk about a great day for the team.”

Horner already has his mind set on tomorrow’s race, where the team could achieve victory number 117 in F1: “Sunday will be a different day. We’ll see what the weather does, but for now we enjoy this day with victory in the Sprint, pole in the afternoon and the entire front row. There is nothing better“. On a possible battle between Verstappen and Perez in the GP, he cuts it short: “Sergio will certainly try to release the clutch quicker than his teammate. But it will be important to work as a team in the first sequence of turns“.