Christian Horner sees Mercedes and Ferrari ‘coming back at Red Bull’ during second leg of 2022
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Christian Horner ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix has indicated that Red Bull is keeping its feet on the ground as they are aware of the threat that Mercedes and Ferrari can pose during the upcoming second leg of the season.
Despite having a healthy leading both the Championships, the Red Bull boss is not taking anything for granted and wants his team to keep doing the good work that they have done so far.
The Milton-Keynes-based team with the help of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez has already won 9 Grand Prix this year which is a stupendous feat in itself considering the 2022 season is only 13 rounds down.
Red Bull, at the moment, is 97 points clear of Ferrari in the Constructors Championship and has also got a lead of 80 points over Charles Leclerc in the Drivers Championship with Max Verstappen.
Christian Horner sees room for improvement at Red Bull
Christian Horner has a wealth of experience when it comes to F1 and thus is not willing to take the challenge of the Ferrari and Mercedes lightly. Moreover, while dwelling over Verstappen’s lead in the Championship said, “It’s [a] very healthy lead, but it’s an awful lot of racing to go.”
“Things can go wrong. We had some reliability issues [in Hungary] with the clutch – that could quite easily have been a DNF, but thankfully it wasn’t.”
“We were 12 kilometers away [from a failure with Verstappen’s power unit in qualifying]. 12 kilometers later, it would have been on the way to the grid.“
“So there’s some areas that we can still improve on.”
Horner has urged the Red Bull outfit to keep improving during the remaining nine races of the season and has admitted that Ferrari and Mercedes can become a big nuisance for them.
Horner while talking about their threat said, “Ferrari have got a very quick car, and Mercedes… you can see coming back at us, so maybe we don’t need the TD in Spa after all!“
Christian Horner sees the two wounded teams coming after Red Bull and considering that there are only nine races left in the season, fireworks are going to go off between the top three teams and it will be fascinating to see how the energy drink team will fend off their challenge.
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