The Red Bull crisis
In Formula 1 the long break period has begun which will continue until the first weekend of May with the Miami Grand Prix, but the start of the championship was not at all positive for a top team like Red Bull. While four-time world champion Max Verstappen did not go beyond 6th place in Australia, heavily criticizing the new single-seaters and considering retirement, Isack Hadjar he only finished in the points in China, finishing in eighth place.
Hadjar uncensored
Red Bull’s new French-Algerian driver finished the last Japanese GP in 12th place, the same as he occupies in the general classification. The 21-year-old also spared no negative comments after the Japanese weekend, focusing on the RB22 and the chassis: “We didn’t have a good pace – he explained – we expected it, but it was worse than the previous days of the weekend. It was truly undrivable, even dangerous. So it was complicated. We have no guidance on how to make it faster. We have a good power unit. The engine is good, it’s just the chassis that is terrible, it’s slow in corners“.
To this, Hadjar added further considerations on the problems encountered during the race with the drums: “I have to understand why that situation with the battery happened so early. I was comfortable in eighth place. The plan was to fight with Pierre (Gasly), which we were doing, but everything vanished with the battery dead. At that point you’re just helpless.”
