The comp🐟etitiveness of the Red Bull has been 🌱hit with major questions after the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.

The first race with the new regulation clamping down on flexi-wings made little difference to McLaren, who💦 secur🐽ed their first 1-2 finish of 2025.

Meanwhile, an angry 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen clashed with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell leading t💞o a time penalty which demoted him to 10th.

He left the paddock questioning whether he was even able to contend for the drivers’ title against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris.

“Maybe the moment he gave up, in a way, his options,” Spanish j꧟ournalist Jesús Balseiro told the F1 Nation podcast in Barcelona.

“I spoke to another d꧒river who knows about fi๊ghting with a less competitive car, Fernando Alonso.

“He was sayin❀g that maybe this was a relief that [Max] doesn’t have to fight anymore with worse arms for something which may be impossible against these McLarens.

“It d♏oesn’t look smart to 🐻lose a P5 on merit which could have been a P3.

“I don’t understand why Max was that mad.

“The situation with Red Bull, having a set of hard ♚tyres and having to give back the position… maybe this was a situation which wasn’t well played by Red Bull.”

'Where will Red Bull be close' to McLaren?

Julianne Cerasoli added a stern warning: “We will look back at this grand prix and think it was when things started to go really wrong for Red Bull.

“This track has a lot of fast corners. They were doing well in the fast☂ corners, before.

“Saudi, Japan, Imola - they seemed able to fight McLaren 💦in the fast corners. Here? Fast corners but medium speed.

“I was really surprised byꦍ the gap in qualifying, three tenths. And the ga♉p in the race too.

“Put that in Max’s account for frustration.

“Everyone expected Red Bull to be closer to M🌠cLaren here. And if th🥀ey’re not close here, then where will they be close?”

Verstappen later 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:apolo🌳gised for his part in the clash with Russell.

Christian Horner 🐬168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:revealed that Verstappen expressed regret in their team debrief, too.

But questions have also been asked of Red Bull surrounding their tyre strategy, and their decision to tell Verstap🎀pen to let Russell through.

But an even bigger h﷽eadache surrounds the performance of the RB21 compared to F1’s fastest car, which♈ is in McLaren’s garage.

Stark𓄧ly, Verstappen’s teammate Yuki Tsunoda qualified last🌸 in Barcelona.

Red Bull have sunk to🌃 fourth in the constructors’ behind McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari who each have two drivers capable of scoring points.