F1: Red Bull and Max Verstappen, far in Baréin

The Dutch complained about the rhythm of his RB21 throughout the weekend and, to top it off, the team also failed at boxes. The tetracapmeón finished sixth.

The triumph in the Japan GP was an oasis in a desert for Max Verstappen and Red Bull. The benefits of a cold climate, an asphalt that did not degrade and the error of Lando Norris in classification, allowed the tetracampeón to start from the pole and beat in Suzuka. Seven days later, everything changed Baréin. More heat, a more abrasive floor and RB21 was lost. Or, perhaps, he returned to the reality that Max himself warned several times. Of course, the almost amateur errors of the Milton Keynes team at the stops were not in the libretto.

On Friday, after training, Verstappen announced its concern about the lack of Grip. On Saturday, in the classification, he played suffering with the brakes. And on Sunday, in the race … a little of everything. The final image of the champion was fighting on the last round to overcome Pierre Gasly, with his modest Alpine, to end sixth. “We could not have done better than a sixth, regardless of the strategy. Everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong,” he said after the race.

Max arrived in Sakhir to a point from Norris and went to eight. However, Red Bull’s pilot does not worry, basically because he is not considered a candidate for the title. “We are not in the fight for the championship, we are just trying to solve the problems we have with the car. I am competing,” the phrase lasts for someone accustomed to fighting up.

In the analysis of the race itself, Verstappen said: “The start was bad, the rhythm was bad, the stops were bad, something happened in the first with the lights of the traffic light. Then I had another one that was worse. I consider the sixth place, with everything that happened, it was fine after everything that happened, but the rhythm was very poor. We are going well when there is low degradation and here there was a lot.”

The equipment of energizing drinks had inconvenience with the lights of the traffic light that tells their pilots when the work of boxes is over and are enabled to leave. The problem in the first arrest of Max and Yuki Tsunoda was that the tasks finished and the light continued in red. AND In the second pass by Pits of the champion, the right front cover was locked. Something positive for Red Bull? That for the first time in the year they added their two cars, because Tunoda was ninth. A little.