After the first two races all teams looked pessimistic how the 2023 season would unfold due to the superiority they showed max verstappen and Sergio Pérez in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
However, Aston Martin never hid that they have an ace up their sleeve: they will incorporate improvements in all the races and for the Imola Grand Prix the great revolution will come.
For this reason, the head of Red Bull, Christian Horner, he fears that his top pursuers may take the lead sooner rather than later. At the same time, he is aware that Fernando Alonso will be attentive to any failure of the RB19, just like you did in the classification of jeddah sneaking into the front line of the grill.
The director of the Austrian team has shown in ‘Motorsport’ caution with the succession of races: “EI hope to see a lot of convergence during the course of the yearand the grill will fit“.
“We couldn’t afford to fail because we were never going to be able to recover if we started with a disadvantage”, he explained. This equality is due to the fewer hours that Red Bull will have to develop the wind tunnel and computer simulations. Something that they must fulfill after the sanction who imposed the FIA in 2022.
The hour limitation For simulators, it is applied based on how the teams were positioned in the table of builders past year. Given that Red Bull was champion and Aston Martin It was the sixth team, those of Lawrence Stroll have a 40% more hours for development.
This will increase the competition each weekend. Meanwhile, the leader of Red Bull He hopes to manage the distance that they have at the moment to compensate for the limitations of the future: “we need to get advantage as long as we have a competitive car, and keep moving forward during the season“, he stressed.
