2024 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

[AR3-GP]

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[taperoo2k]

Not only was Perez poor but he ruined Max's race essentially. I am surprised the team didn't consider the 1-stop.

They might have considered it, but I think today was about ensuring Max finished ahead of Lando.

Maybe hurt his tyres too much in the dirty air to make that realistic, but so did Russell

Russell made the call to 1 stop. That was a gamble, one RedBull probably didn't want to take. Given they only had 1 new hard tyre for the race.

[AR3-GP]

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[AR3-GP]

Max was stuck behind an illegal Mercedes too

[FW17]

Yuki was not playing ball either

[AR3-GP]

Lap 16:


Lap 22:





Max didn't say a word about it from lap 13 to lap 22.

[Rikhart]

I don't think Verstappen will be competing in this team in the near future, just saying.

[Sergej]

mixed feelings about this race, extending the lead over Lando despite the penalty is very good, but it feels like a missed opportunity to gain even more, starting from the penalty itself, which I still consider a mistake to take here, one of the few tracks where win was possible, then the race management with Max stuck in the DRS led by Checo

the positive things is that Lando keeps making mistakes and this is a hard psychological hit for him, if he starts losing even to Oscar that's a win for Max, on the negative side with that fast Mercedes there will be races where we can lose a ton of points, a scenario Lando-Oscar-Lewis-George-Max is now quite realistic; it'll be a tense season ending

lastly, if I was Max I would jump on the Mercedes train, but maybe now it's too late, seems Toto chose Kimi

[PierreW]

Max should stay with Red Bull unless their 2026 motor is a disaster. They are such a good fit. We should believe in Horner to right the ship and tighten the screws. Was Red Bull in full knowledge of the DRS reduction when they choose to take the penalty here?

It was hard to overtake here. Norris couldn't put a single attack on Max, and Hamilton couldn't on Russel despite being 0.6-0.7s faster per lap.

[CjC]

mixed feelings about this race, extending the lead over Lando despite the penalty is very good, but it feels like a missed opportunity to gain even more, starting from the penalty itself, which I still consider a mistake to take here, one of the few tracks where win was possible, then the race management with Max stuck in the DRS led by Checo

the positive things is that Lando keeps making mistakes and this is a hard psychological hit for him, if he starts losing even to Oscar that's a win for Max, on the negative side with that fast Mercedes there will be races where we can lose a ton of points, a scenario Lando-Oscar-Lewis-George-Max is now quite realistic; it'll be a tense season ending

lastly, if I was Max I would jump on the Mercedes train, but maybe now it's too late, seems Toto chose Kimi

Underweight train

[Dunlay]

What was that smokescreen qualifying performance from Red Bull? What happened to the pace in the race? Has the team spoken about what happened, where did the pace go?

[Sergej]

Max should stay with Red Bull unless their 2026 motor is a disaster. They are such a good fit. We should believe in Horner to right the ship and tighten the screws. Was Red Bull in full knowledge of the DRS reduction when they choose to take the penalty here?

It was hard to overtake here. Norris couldn't put a single attack on Max, and Hamilton couldn't on Russel despite being 0.6-0.7s faster per lap.

I have a feeling they made an overconfidence mistake by:
1 thinking they would have recovered as easily as 22/23
2 not considering that this could have been one of the very few remaining races where win is possible

[Juzh]

Lap 16:
https://i.postimg.cc/pLpr3Gsx/image.png

Lap 22:
https://i.postimg.cc/J0r4xPsf/image.png




Max didn't say a word about it from lap 13 to lap 22. I don't even think Max cared anymore today. After trying to make a difference in Hungary, he was criticized. Now today they managed the race so badly and he was just going to let them wallow in it

This is why drivers have to speak up during the races. It makes Red Bull stronger and it gives the team clarity. Perez should have been moved. Today was another show of weakness from Red Bull and Max is done compensating for the car and for Perez only for them to spit in his face like this. As he said at the end, he was happy to beat Norris and didn't say much about anything else

Sure Max, you were 100% happy today to go from P11 to P5. Happy to beat 3 midfield cars, and Perez and Sainz. An 100% unserious remark from Max

I think that's very harsh on the team. There was Russell in between them, what were they supposed to do? After russell overtook Perez they pitted him immediately to get him out of Max's way. Later when Max caught him again he moved aside within half a lap. Sometimes races pan up the way they do, engine penalty and sub-optimal dry pace killed this race, not perez in particular.

Pit stops should have been faster I agree. In general team is not operating on 2022-2023 levels.

[Juzh]

What was that smokescreen qualifying performance from Red Bull? What happened to the pace in the race? Has the team spoken about what happened, where did the pace go?

Yeah, really strange to just drop off like that. They lost something like 0,5s of relative performance from Q to race. Maybe we also saw some Max magic yesterday as per usual.

[CjC]

What was that smokescreen qualifying performance from Red Bull? What happened to the pace in the race? Has the team spoken about what happened, where did the pace go?

Max never had clean air.
He would have competed for the win if he started from his actual pole position

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