F1: Red Bull threw the ball into McLaren’s roof

Helmut Marko, advisor to the Austrian team, did not hesitate to put Woking as favorites for the World Cup that will begin next 16 in Australia.

It is known, When Helmut Marko speaks the walls they tremble. The fierce expiloto is a sports advisor to Red Bull and his words has its own weight. After the three days of preseason trials in Baréin, the Austrian gave his sentence about the World Cup that will begin on Melbourne: “I think it will be a fight of three or four pilots between McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. But, seeing the results, McLaren is slightly ahead, and that was demonstrated both in the short and long batches, ”he said.

By deepening a little more in the analysis, he went further in the message about the Woking team: “For now, McLaren is clearly the favorite. In Baréin, only on Wednesday we were as fast as McLaren: but on Friday, in the long batches we lost between two and three tenths of a second by return. In addition, the tires of the tires in their cars was significantly better than our data indicated. ” And as for the candidate pilot, he did not hesitate: “It must be said that Lando Norris is the favorite. Obviously, it seemed much better than Piastri in Baréin. The main thing is to expect points to the other and take advantage of it. ”

With respect to RB21, the model with which Max Verstappen will seek his fifth title in a row, Marko said: “It would have been good for all adjustments and innovations to have worked well from the beginning, but at least the car is more predictable. The car responds correctly to technical instructions and is not as randomly as last year. Some new pieces worked, not others, but that means that there is still room to develop and improve with what we have at our disposal at this time. ”