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Verstappen: ‘Pink Bull cannot combat for win in Melbourne’
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Verstappen: ‘Pink Bull cannot combat for win in Melbourne’

By Miles Cooper March 8, 2025
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Max Verstappen has dominated Pink Bull out of competition for victory forward of System 1’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

Though reigning champion Verstappen has received 4 world titles in a row and took pole by 0.270s in the newest Melbourne occasion, Pink Bull slid down the pecking order all through the 2024 marketing campaign, as McLaren surged to the entrance whereas Ferrari and Mercedes additionally grew to become constant challengers.

Bahrain’s pre-season testing hinted at an identical hierarchy in 2025 as McLaren impressed with its long-run tempo.

Pink Bull, nevertheless, appeared much less aggressive and was hindered by plenty of points. The workforce carried out no race simulations after Liam Lawson encountered a water stress loss, whereas the RB21’s behaviour stays trigger for concern.

Verstappen didn’t show a lot optimism as testing got here to a detailed, and the Pink Bull driver opened as much as Dutch media – together with Motorsport.com – on Friday at a Viaplay occasion, expressing the extent of his fear.

“I do not suppose we will combat for the win already in Melbourne,” the Pink Bull driver mentioned, though he admitted that “every little thing [on the RB21] could be arrange just a little bit higher in Melbourne than in Bahrain”.

Requested what number of groups may compete for world titles in 2025, Verstappen designated McLaren: “For the time being just one, and that workforce is orange! That is a really good color in fact, however from our aspect, we nonetheless have work to do. Different groups need to see some enhancements as effectively, I feel, so in the meanwhile one workforce is clearly in entrance.

Verstappen: ‘Pink Bull cannot combat for win in Melbourne’

Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing

Photograph by: Sam Bagnall / Motorsport Pictures

“Should you take a look at the lap occasions, then I feel McLaren is the favorite. On our aspect, not every little thing went fully easily, however however we’ve got some concepts on tips on how to enhance.”

On the conclusion of the Bahrain working, technical director Pierre Wache painted a downbeat image, calling the occasion “not as easy a check as we anticipated” and admitting to being “not as completely satisfied as I could possibly be as a result of the automobile didn’t reply how we needed at occasions”.

The RB21’s predecessor was notoriously troublesome to deal with; Pink Bull has been striving to resolve this explicit drawback for nearly a yr now and it looks as if the squad hasn’t been capable of absolutely iron out the problem.

As reported throughout testing, the RB21 suffered from an inclination to understeer in gradual corners whereas oversteering in high-speed curves on the Sakhir monitor.

“When it comes to stability, it does really feel a bit extra related when coming into the corners and likewise in the course of the corners,” Verstappen analysed. “However however, there are nonetheless issues with the kerbs and with the bumps.

“These issues are clearly not our strongest factors, and I maintain mentioning that. It would not all the time need to be mentioned to the skin world, however throughout the conferences we clearly discuss rather a lot about it.”

At the very least, as Verstappen put it throughout testing, the brand new automobile “can’t be worse than final yr” – even when it fails to match the RB20’s early-season highs.

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