Immediately before the Great Britain’s Grand Prix in Silverstone, McLaren-Boss Zak Brown attracted attention with a provocative statement. Because the American put up a daring thesis compared to “Sky Sports F1”: “Red Bull would be behind the racing bulls without Verstappen.”
Racing Bulls did a great job and a very good car, Brown praised. However, he attributes the lion’s share of Red Bulls to Red Bulls alone: “I think Max is currently wearing the team on his shoulders.” What exactly the McLaren boss wants to testify remains open.
Is it praise for the three -time world champion or hidden criticism of the performance of the team? “To be honest, I don’t know what to do with it,” commented Verstappen soberly, without any further appeal. “I’m always trying to get the maximum out of the car.”
“I think Zak and Christian just don’t suffer very well, and that’s why such a remark was probably made,” says the Dutch, and makes it clear again: “No, I am not particularly interested.”
Brown and Horner “can’t suffer”
In fact, the rivalry between Brown and Christian Horner has been smoldering for a long time. The McLaren boss has already bothered by Red Bull several times and caused a crazy action at this year’s Miami GP.
However, Brown has also been more common against the recently released Red Bull team boss in recent months, including in relation to the Horner affair. What the McLaren boss has now brought for pronunciation are not only assumptions, but in part also facts.
Because if you were to delete the points of Verstappen and instead double the World Cup counters of the second car, Red Bull would only have 20 points, while Racing Bulls already got 36 points. Means: Without Verstappen, Red Bull would be behind the sister team.
Yuki tsunoda brown carefully agrees
Yuki Tsunoda, who has been driving on the side of Verstappen at Red Bull since the Japan GP, has only been collecting ten dots in the last ten races. Preference Liam Lawson already has twelve points at Racing Bulls, whose team -mate Isack Hadjar has even scored 21 points.
Tsunoda himself reacts to Brown’s statement with openness: “Well, it is probably the truth that we would be behind them. I mean, with the performance I show at the moment, we would probably be in the back.” At the same time, Racing Bulls “definitely perform well,” recalls the Japanese.
“I think I just need more time to understand the car better, to work hard, to understand it, and to work closely with the engineers,” believes Tsunoda. “I just have to understand the peculiarities of the car even better.”