Red Bulls are like the horizon. All the other teams are rowing to reach him, but it’s an illusion, optical and technical: he’s getting further and further away. It’s an attitude, though Max Verstappenfor his team principal Chris Hornerfor the gray eminence Helmut Marko who as in a spy movie everyone defines as “The Counselor”. They are superior, they enjoy it, as is normal. They just don’t hesitate to wield their hegemony as a weapon, even a psychological one. It’s a skill and a form of bullying that you would call etymological, if bullyingin English, really derived from “bull”, bull. Instead, says the Oxford dictionary, it descends from boel, word – obsolete – Dutch (coincidentally…) which means (va) “lover”. More concretely: it is not enough to have won 10 out of 10 races, to chase the 11th which would equal the record of McLaren in 1988. The 208 points ahead of Mercedes between the Builders and the 99 that Captain Max has compared to his subordinate Sergio Perez. It’s not enough to have killed the championship: in the name of a relentless war of nerves, we must also take away the hope of our opponents. And so there RB19, already impregnable since Bahrain, in Budapest it is presented not with some development, but really revolutionized, as if to say that it does not want to beat its opponents, it wants to tear them up. Warning that the one on the track is still the 2023 car, but it’s also a trailer for next year. A film that none of them will like.