This season has been ``very fun'' for Red Bull. Red Bullhave watched their Ferrari rivals ruin their title challenge.
This is the view of advisor Helmut Marko, who evaluated the rivalry in the first half of the season. Amidst the Italian team's ongoing struggles with reliability issues and repeated strategic failures, the Austrians clamored not to have had much of a fight.
As a result, Ferrari trails Red Bull by 97 points and has barely won the drivers' championship. Charles Leclerc faces the enviable task of trailing Max Verstappen in his final nine races, now trailing them by 80 points.
Asked by the Austrian newspaper Osterreich how the Italians had fallen so far behind, Marco replied bluntly:
He then elaborated: "For example, in Budapest, for the first time the tires were not given the right temperature window and the wrong pit strategy was also chosen. I don't understand why they didn't do that." please
Red Bull edged out Mercedes in last season's constructors' standings, but that didn't stop their dominating streak. But this year it was much easier, with the Silver Arrow almost out of the title picture and Ferrari stepping in at every opportunity.
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REUTERS)"It's rarely this much fun," Marco chuckled. "Almost every weekend is fun and it's completely different from last season when a lot of nerve was put into everything. It's a little disappointing that Ferrari make so many mistakes.
"But again, they're coming back. They've got very powerful cars." With 9 wins, sprints and the fastest lap of the race, it's 225 points," he insisted, adding, "I can't back down yet." He said he was happy withthis season and enjoyed a more "respectful" title fight with Leclerc compared to his title fight withLewis Hamilton. 2021 years. "We are fierce competitors on the track and we always try to beat each other, I think that's normal, but other than that we have a good time," he said.
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