“Nothing worked.” This is not a common sentence, but a statement. Met by someone who needs to know. Because he sits right in the middle: Max Verstappen, Formula 1 world champion. The best. On Sunday at the Grand Prix of Bahrain Hintendran, with trouble and need, the last minute became the last minute at the sovereign victory of Oscar Piatri in the McLaren, who ended up in front of Mercedes-Pilot George Russell and Lando Norris (McLaren). In any case, he shook his head in the cockpit when he discovered this miserably paralyzing slowness around him. Red Bull was once the admired champion when changing tires. On Sunday according to Verstappen: “A disaster.” Where has the excellence remained? But the choice of his words speaks for the perception: he sees how everything crashes around him. Activate external content The judgment may seem rushed from the outside a week after the Japan coup. A good week ago he won in Suzuka. But this coup cannot hide the general loss of tempo at Red Bull. The results, may they still fluctuate, are the result of a longer recognizable erosion: the racing team loses its expertise. Where has the excellence of the promotion of young talent remained? The team leadership degraded the Novices Liam Lawson after only two races with a restoration to the daughter team if it did not even destroy the New Zealand’s self -confidence. The once brilliant aerodynamics gave the racing car a particularly trustworthy balance that Peu à peu gave way to unpredictability. Verstappen sometimes considers his car to be inappropriate. A connection between the change of many leading engineers on the competition and this instability cannot be denied. Likewise, the result of the farewell of Adrian Newey, the resource and successful designer. An escape to Aston Martin before the power struggle with Red Bull, which team boss Christian Horner won a year ago (for the time being). If you believe in a slow course of a destabilization process up to recognizable effects, the death of the Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz in autumn 2022 will be regarded as an beginning from the end of the Red Bull era in the premier class. In the end, the exit and changeover of Verstappen would be. Medium -sized types do not last long. More on the topic as it looks as it looks, namely to find two steps back into the top, it will not be for the 27 -year -old Dutch. Nobody knows which racing team with the huge control reform for 2026 the curve will get the fastest. The disaster at Red Bull is also one for Verstappen.
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