Red Bull looked like the fastest team during the three days of F1 testing in Bahrain, but it was not just its lap times that left its rivals worried ahead of the start of the season this weekend.
having set the benchmark overall in the late flurry of lower fuel runs on the final evening as teams finally unlocked some potential.
"Above all that, what makes us very optimistic is that both of Perez's and Max's long runs were clearly at least faster than those of the competition." Early on, with other teams battling to find a good balance for their cars, Verstappen boasted about facing no dramas of his own.That seemed to be borne on day one of the test where, after a couple of installation laps, Verstappen spent the rest of the day blasting through swift 5/6/7 laps run – all at the same strikingly consistent pace and only interrupted by coming into the pits for setup changes.
The early season excess bulk that Red Bull started the 2022 campaign with meant the car was too lazy at turn-in, and that understeer characteristic is something that Verstappen is known to not like. When it emerged that F1 tyre supplier Pirelli was tweaking its products for 2023, to deliver a stronger front end, that immediately pointed towards things edging even more towards what Verstappen likes.
Its early season fortunes were hampered a lot by reliability, as the problems that wrecked its Bahrain and Australian Grands Prix fortunes even made it look like the title was slipping away at that point.
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