Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has lauded 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen for “making a key difference” for Red Bull in recent F1 races.

Verstappen held off McLaren’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris to make it back-to-back wins in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix and further increase his lead at𒀰✨ the top of the F1 world championship.

It mark𓆉ed the reigning world champion’s seventh victory in 10 races, but Red Bull have come under increasing pressure from rivals McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes in recent events.

“I think today there was a few decisive moments🍰,” Horner said. “Obviously we lost the pole by two hundredths yesterday, we knew it’d be very tight with Lando.

“The start was crucial, we took the start on sc💝rubbed rathe🦄r than the new tyre because we wanted to have the new tyre as we thought we might need it for the undercut later.

“Max ha𒁏d a good start, got alongside Lando, some fairly robust racing where he’s on the grass going to turn 1 which allowed George to pick his b🦹raking point and go around the outside. Then it was a race that was always going to be dominated around tyre wear, being quick to pass George was crucial.

“He pushed hard on that first lap or two to get the pass on George, as soon as the DRS opened, then immediately got into managing tyres and was able to b🐻uild out a gap reasonably co🗹mfortably in that first stint, at that point we decided to go for an optimum race in terms of strategy in our stop laps, McLaren obviously extended, so they had an offset.

"So you look at the gap and think nine seconds is pretty decent but you know that the tyre offset. Six laps on med⛄iums and three or four o✨n the soft, those gaps come back at you pretty quickly.

“So today w🌳as about not making any mistakes, Max drove a perfect race, with wellജ executed pit stops. So it’s all those small details that we knew Lando would come back towards us at the end of the race, but we thought we’d have enough in hand, and that’s the way it played out.”

Horner went on to underline just how crucial Verstappen’s remarkably consistent performances have b꧂een at a time when Red Bull have not always had the outright fastest car.

“He’s always been fantastic under pressure, last year was a unicorn year and now it’s more norm꧒al year,” Horner added.

“It’s not normal to win all the races all the time and we’re having to fight very very hard for them, and Max is makingꦚ a key difference.

“We know where we need to improve, we’re getting a better understanding of where our strengths and weaknesses are, and w🅷e’re doing enough at the moment to keep growing that championship lead.”