After the massive dominance of Max Verstappen and Red Bull in the year 2022, where he was declared two-time champion of F1 With 4 races remaining and he has achieved 15 wins out of 22 possible, with a huge superiority in the second half of the championship, many think that 2022 will be the beginning of a new era of Dutchman dominance. It’s the winning car in the first year of the new regulations, a single-seater that’s faster on all kinds of tracks and wears less tires than its rivals. The remaining teams will have to refine their weapons or implement some Red Bull solutions in their cars and must reach 2023 with more unknowns than the champions. But for Max, that’s not the case. The Dutchman gave an interview on the portal ‘racingnews365.com’ where he is sure that the fight for the title will be more even in 2023 and in the following years due to the maintenance of this regulation and the great room for improvement that his opponents have.
“The others are not stupid. And certainly with these rules, which are a little more strict than the previous rule set, everything is getting closer. expect the differences. smaller next year, but that’s good,” he said . Of course, it does not mean that he does not believe that he will win in 2023: “Of course I hope that we will still be first, but it is not as obvious as this year.”
In this sense, Max Verstappen referred to the penalty received by Red Bull for slightly exceeding the budget limit in 2021. In particular, in the sporting part, since the number of hours available in the wind tunnel and CFD simulations is will be reduced by 10%, times already reduced by the first position achieved by Red Bull in the Constructors’ World Championship. Max considers this punishment “a severe punishment”.
“Everyone is probably more motivated here. Personally, I think it’s a strong punishment for what we’ve done, but yeah, what can we do about it? It happened and we’ll see next year what effect it really has on us. ,” he said.
In addition, Max makes sure that the fact that there is a budget ceiling makes him face the weekends in a different way, suffering more than before every time he breaks a part of his car.
“You have to be a little more careful than in previous years. Before you think (in the event of an accident) ‘fuck, there goes a front wing, but we’ll put a new one’. Of course, people at the factory are still not satisfied with that and I have apologized many times, but this is not a real limitation, no matter how much work is required to make a new part Now, however, we have to be more careful, for example in free practice , because it’s no longer easy to say ‘oh, we’re going to put a new floor underneath'”.
Source: La Verdad
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