Red Bull believes that has not lost everything

Christian Horner, Main Team of Red Bullhe believes his car is “A good base” To start the season and develop it with the rest of the year to try to reach the McLaren level, the dominant car starting this course.

Despite the many problems of the car, Max Vrstappen manages to reduce its losses at the start of the championship, with an amazing -spectacular to the wheel of a car that is very difficult to do to the limit. Dutch took advantage of Lando Norris in China’s Sprint format to fish more points than he believed and showed a promise rhythm in the second part of the career that surprised him. There, his car came to life with better management and grip of the gums.

Thus, after two races, Verstappen Comes to the next F1 Japan GP to just 8 points from the leader and Christian Horner He trusts ‘Sky Sports’ To improve your car and hunt McLaren during the course.

“Especially in the last third of the career, Max has a (good) sensation, the grip has been alive. The car has come life. And it’s almost the fastest circuit car in the last third of the race. But we have a lot to learn. We know we need to improve car performance,”The British argued.

“This is the second race, you don’t have to be the beat”He added that he would definitely find the right path to the car’s development so Max was fighting to defend his title. “We were eight points behind the pilot championship after two races, and everything was still at stake. And last year we taught us one thing: you can start as strong as you want, what to count how you end up.”.

Max did not prevent his fourth crown in 2024, but the Red Bull won the World Cup with the builders by the overcrowding of McLaren and Ferrari for the many problems that the car’s energy cars got from the Imala appointment.

“I think we have a reasonable base. We’re 0” 176 seconds of the pole and we’re faster as a McLaren in the second batch of race. We know that there are places of improvement in the car and that there is already a planned development map. We try to make sure we are allowed to achieve the return times we need to find a little more rhythm and put pressure on McLaren, that they are not far away “Horner added.

“Everyone in the company knows we have a little rhythm to find and we have tools and people to do it. You just need to solve it. I think we have very good data from China”Argument.

For his part, Vrstappen was shocked at his vehicle’s rhythm in the second race and expects the team could take advantage of that data to understand how the car would develop and how to improve in the short term, beginning with the next Japan GP.