Montoya: “Red Bull cares more about electronics than the Ford engine”

The Red Bull shakedown In the first two days of the Barcelona shakedown, Red Bull provided very positive signals, starting with the best time recorded by Isack Hadjar on Day-1. The Frenchman, Max Verstappen’s new teammate for this season, wanted to push further on Tuesday, but made a mistake and hit the barriers. An episode that ruined the program of the Milton Keynes team, which returned to the Montmelò track only on Friday (day-5) with the four-time Dutch world champion. The good signs of the Ford engine Regardless of what happened with the former Racing Bulls, the Anglo-Austrian team completed a total of 303 laps over the course of the week, with the mileage of the new Ford power unit which impressed both the competitors and the men of the team, starting with Team Principal Laurent Mekies and Max Verstappen, even if the Dutchman reiterated that there is still a lot of work to be done to better understand the engine. The concerns according to Montoya Yet, according to a former Formula 1 driver like Juan Pablo Montoya, there is another concern at Red Bull, which does not focus on the engine itself. According to the 50-year-old, interviewed by AS Colombia, the problems may arise elsewhere: “I can give you a small detail – he explained – I know that Red Bull’s Ford engine already had the reliability and power they were looking for. For some time they have been more concerned with the electronic systems than with the reliability of the engine, and they still do. They don’t have… the driveability, the good functioning of the engine, the fluidity of power delivery, the integration of the systems is new. Many engineers have experience, but they know that when they assemble the engine there will be problems. The way the power is delivered will not be ideal, there will be problems. It is in all these aspects that I think Red Bull will have some difficulties.”