Red Bull team boss about speed: ‘Don’t hold back’

The fact that Red Bull has a Formula 1 car to lick your fingers this year is now beyond doubt. The competition is looking at the RB19 with some discomfort and George Russell from Mercedes in particular has already said some striking things about it. For example, he stated at the start of the season that Red Bull logically wins every race this year and after the Australian GP he claimed that Red Bull has not yet shown its true speed. According to the Briton, Red Bull would be somewhat ‘ashamed’ of the lead of ‘about seven tenths per lap’. Red Bull could hold back a bit to prevent any intervention by the FIA.

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has to laugh a bit at Russell’s statements. “Okay, very generous of him. He and his team know all too well what it’s like to have such a lead,” said Horner, according to the official Formula 1 website. Russell’s statements. Horner states that Pérez, who drove a catch-up race in Australia, really gave the RB19 the spurs. “Checo (Pérez; ed.) Really didn’t hold back with seven tenths per lap because he didn’t want to show it. The field was just really closer together,” said Horner. according to Horner purely for normal strategic reasons. “Of course there is always some management (of the speed, ed.) in a race. It was a one-stop race, which also came very early, so of course there was some tire management. That was it.”