The Red Bull adviser feels the team will be extremely dominant during the race in Bahrain after securing the front row during qualifying.
Helmut Marko, who has served as Red Bull’s senior adviser since 2005, is quite confident in the cars’ pace and competitiveness, having pointed out problems with other teams. He feels his team will be the ‘best’ throughout the run, mirroring his performances in the 2022 season. If this turns out to be true, the Milton Keynes-based outfit could be in for another dominant season. Marko told RacingNews365.com:
“We assume that we will clearly be the best in the race.”
In addition to being confident in his team’s dominance in the upcoming race, he feels that other teams will spend too much time fighting each other on the track to compete against RB in any form.
He revealed that the data the team has collected marks Aston Martin’s performance above Mercedes in the long term. Furthermore, he believes that Ferrari will encounter reliability issues like the ones Charles Leclerc faced during the session:
“Over the long runs, Aston Martin was better than Mercedes according to our data. It will be an exciting fight and Charles Leclerc had some problems with his engine, so reliability is not going very well yet.
🗣️ | Helmut Marko says that RB will be the fastest in the race: “We assume that we will clearly be the best in the race”, “If we are successful, we want to get away from the start immediately. We don’t want to get arrogant, but looking at the data, we have all reasons to be optimistic. https://t.co/Ghfss2Gvk3
Marko has ‘every reason to be optimistic’ about Red Bull’s dominance of the race
Red Bull has been the performance benchmark for almost every team during the pre-season testing period, and while Max Verstappen mentioned earlier that the car was a bit different during FP sessions than it was during testing, its speed was quite a bit different. evident during Q3.
Helmut Marko revealed that the data Red Bull has collected is promising and there is no reason to worry. According to him, there is a good chance that the team will “maintain its superiority” this season:
“If we are successful, we want to pull away from the start immediately. We don’t want to become arrogant, but looking at the data, we have every reason to be optimistic. As long as there are no technical problems, we can also maintain our superiority in the race.”
Both Verstappen and Sergio Perez have the front row of the grid secured ahead of the first race of the season, and while Ferrari is relying more on strategic decisions to get the best result, Red Bull is reportedly the strongest competitor at the time. .