Carlos Sainz scored the first victory of 2023 for a team other than Red Bull in Singapore, as the Ferrari driver showed his Monza form was no flash in the pan. On a weekend that the year's dominant Formula 1 team appeared oddly subdued, with both cars missing the Q3 cut, and another piece of the 2024 driver market jigsaw slotted into place, here's what we learned
All that and more is presented in the pick of what we learned from F1's latest visit to Singapore.Both Red Bulls were eliminated in Q2, leaving them to face a long afternoon slog to reach the points as its 100% win streak ended“You guys have been asking me [about winning every race] since pretty much Jeddah,” Christian Horner exclaimed after Red Bull’s humbling in Singapore last weekend.
Red Bull got that wrong, even making things worse with pre-qualifying tweaks compared to FP3. That’s what proved so costly, as the rest are more adept at engineering their cars around naturally higher ride heights. But this result was still a shock considering Red Bull’s previous form.
But Horner insists “I know all of you would love to blame the TD, but unfortunately, we can't even blame that because it's not changed a single component on our car” and so seemingly this all had little impact on his squad’s form potential in Singapore. Red Bull did, however, add changes to the existing floor edge and rear wing endplates but said it was part of its circuit-specific approach here.
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