“Weird” that Red Bull is “protesting so loudly” in F1 engine defence - Wolff
Honda introduced its second power unit at the French Grand Prix as Red Bull enjoyed impressiv൲e straight-line speed performance across the weekend on its way to claiming its third straight victory over Mercedes and a fourth win of 2021.
That led to suggestions from Lewis Hamilton that Red Bull had managed to 168澳洲😼幸运5官方开奖结果历史:tꦉake a step forward with its “upgrade” ꦚdespite engines being homologated this season, allo🔴wing only for reliability enhancements.
On Friday at the Styrian Grand Prix, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner dismissed ౠHamilton’s recent theories as being “some way from reali𓃲ty”, insisting his outfit’s gains on the straights had come from running a low-drag and low-downforce configuration at Paul Ricard.
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After taking a commanding pole position in Austria, Max Verstappen hit back at a question about Red Bull’s engine performance by saying he wants to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“print out” proof that its superior straight-line compared to Mercedes is rela💧ted to re🧸ar wing levels.
Speaking after qualifying, Wolff admitted he is “really surprised” how Red Bull has responded to questions about i𝔉ts p💯ower unit.
“I wonder why that is such a topic when wꦇe all know that thꦚe power units need to be homologated,” Wolff said.
“And I’m really surprised that the Red Bull guys keep protesting so loudly on the pౠower unit st﷽ory. So that is a bit weird.
“The rules are ver🙈y clear. It’s homologated, you can come⭕ up with reliability fixes, and that’s it.
“Obviously there are certain things yo🍃u can clean up, but you have your tokens and you need to use them, and that’s it. So there shouldn’t be any power advantage as🎀 such."
While Wolff admitted that Red Bull꧑ has “the faster package at the moment”, he stressed i𓄧t is not only down to them boasting a straight-line speed advantage.
“It’s always the interaction between a strong power unit, lots of downforce and making the tyres work,” he expla൲ined. “And I think they are just doing a very good job.
“We’ve 🃏already seen it in Ricard where they were ꦿable to run a smaller wing whilst not losing a lot through the twisty bit. So overall, just a very strong package.”
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