The GP Of Spain it could be for the Red Bull a first watershed of this season. There RB20 is called to a sort of performance redemption after the difficulties of the month of May and the efforts of adapting to Montrealwhere Verstappen took home a great victory by making the most of his talent, but also the rather gross errors of his direct opponents.
Mercedes And McLaren they had the pace to challenge for the victory in Canadabut between the imperfections of the teams and those of the drivers, and George Russell knows something about it, at the end of the fair the winner was the one who made the least mistakes of all throughout the entire event weekend: a rainy weekend, full of dangers, but in which the best combination between team and driver prevailed.
Who was missed terribly by Montreal it was there Ferrari: the Stable Of Maranello was considered one of the favorites to win the Grand Award on Sunday, but evidently something in the track operations didn’t work properly, and between a change of set-up which perhaps upset all the plans due to the reliability problems that have been emerging in recent times, the SF-24 EVOr was it the big disappointment of the last one weekend of races.
Red Bull, the competition awaits Montmelò
In order to beat the Red Bull you have to be perfect, despite having the best car: the Canadian GP he demonstrated it to us from all points of view, but these difficulties of RB20 they could be a distant memory starting from the next event, namely the Spanish one Barcelonatenth stage of a world championship 2024 Of F1 who in recent periods has told us that there is something interesting to tell, without witnessing the continuation of the monologue “admired” last season.
Various pilots and representatives of the team they said like the race of Montmelo it will be a real test and will tell us where we are at performance of the reigning world champion single-seater: the difficulties of the last month and a half, smoothed out where possible by the talent of Verstappen, instead they put Sergio Perez in serious difficultywhich despite the fresh contract renewal, is struggling to even enter Q2.
These are real technical problems, we are not making anything up: the three-time Dutch world champion himself, in fact, has loudly asked for a significant improvement on the single-seater, which has become more difficult to drive since You love me onwards and distant relative of the one admired for example in Chinajust a few weeks before the Floridawith a Max who even allowed himself to voluntarily tail off before the last bend of a GP already won practically after a few meters.
Red Bull, without Verstappen no mass can be sung
It will surely be a coincidence (?) that the problems Red Bull have surfaced since the team of Milton Keynes and genius Adrian Newey have decided to end the collaborative relationship after almost 20 years, but the feeling is that when put under pressure, the drinks team struggles a bit to put everything together, but having a champion like Verstappencertain problems are, so to speak, put in the background.
The three-time Dutch world champion behaves like a real man leader, perhaps for the first time in a long time. There Red Bull he is experiencing a very complicated season off the track due to the well-known events that have affected him Christian Horner and more generally for the internal power struggle, from which someone has already left, you see Neweyand who knows what else will await us in the near future.
Probably the team main The British player will have to think again for a moment about his statements from a few months ago, when he said that the team came before the individual. Surely in almost all cases he can be right, but without this Verstappen in version 2024hardly there Red Bull would have celebrated a Imola or in Canada. Ergo, do without MaxDear Hornerdoesn’t seem to be really recommended at the moment.
Author: Andrea Bovone
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