'Red Bull competition better off by putting resources into next year's car'
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Red Bull Racing is incredibly dominant in 2023. The team managed to win pretty much all races by a wide margin and never was victory in danger for the Austrian formation. Max Verstappen in particular has been unstoppable in recent race weekends, with Damon Hill calling the Dutchman's dominance "terrifying".
Competition Red Bull better shift focus to 2024
Six of the eight races so far Red Bull has won by a margin of more than 20 seconds over the competition, only in Australia and Canada this did not happen. In qualifying, Red Bull's competition is still fairly close, but in the race, the RB19 seems all but unbeatable. Hill thinks the competition is better off focusing entirely on next year.
"In F1 this year, the excitement factor is actually whether or not we are going to see for the first time a team win every single race. We are already hearing some teams talking about next year and saying they are going to continue to upgrade, but they are better off putting their resources into next year’s car,," said the one-time world champion at a charity Halow Project event.
Verstappen is 'terrifying'
In Verstappen's hands, the RB19 has proved incredibly dominant over the past four race weekends, so dominant in fact that the two-time world champion is on course to break a record set in 1952. “It is incredible. He is astonishing. He is incredibly talented and he is so capable it’s frightening," Hill said of Verstappen.