‘Golden moment’: The numbers behind Red Bull Racing’s ‘unbelievable’ sixth title
September 25th, 2023 6:00 am
Red Bull Racing is also sure to collect its seventh drivers championship this season, with Max Verstappen likely to claim the individual title at the next race in Qatar. “Everything has to come together — car, driver, team — in total harmony. He has this inner hunger and determination and huge ability, but he channels it and he does not get distracted by some of the trappings of F1.Verstappen has been so dominant this season that his tally of 400 points would be enough to lead Mercedes in the constructors championship by 95 points all on his own. It would be the largest gap between any two constructors in the championship.
It’s the eighth constructors championship powered by a Honda motor — notwithstanding the Red Bull branding on the block this and last year — putting the Japanese marque behind only Ford and Mercedes , Renault and Ferrari as the sport’s most successful engine builders. If the team were to make it to the end of the season without dropping another race, it would attain a success percentage of 95.45 per cent, the greatest of all time.No team has ever won the constructors championship with six races to spare. The previous record of five was jointly held by McLaren in 1998 and Ferrari in 2004 — albeit both seasons were markedly shorter than this year’s 22-round campaign.
For one, RBR is hamstrung this season by a reduction to its development allowance after being found to have breached the cost cap during the 2021 season, the first year of operation of the financial regulations. “The field has been moving around behind us — one week it’s McLaren, the next week it’s Ferrari, the next week it’s Mercedes — and we’ve been 90 per cent consistent at the front of the field,” Horner said, which he turned into a broader point about the relative efficiency of development.
“I played paddle tennis with Max on Wednesday and he was properly fired up. He made it clear and said that he wanted to win the race by 20 seconds — and in fairness he came within 0.7 seconds of achieving that.
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