'That's nonsense,' says Helmut Marko in response to Toto Wolff's comment Red Bull 'played' their rivals in Bahrain qualifying... F1
The Austrian revealed Red Bull had to make “compromises” when it came to Verstappen to satisfy his “ego”, the driver wanting more speed over one lap to bag pole position.“Max had relatively strong understeer, he doesn’t want to live with that. Then Perez was faster once, there was already unrest in it,” he said.
Although the Red Bull team-mates will line up ahead of the Ferrari duo with Fernando Alonso starting in fifth place it is the Aston Martin driver who Marko reckons could be Red Bull’s biggest threat. “We also analysed the long runs of the competition and Alonso is the biggest opponent there,” Marko continued. “Ferrari had too much tyre wear in the endurance runs.
As for Verstappen, he was happy to bag the season’s first pole position and believes his RB19’s race-pace will be “better” than the car in qualifying trim.
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