Red Bull, sometimes on the pace, sometimes miles off it. Occasionally on the top step of the podium, often retiring early. Christian Horner has summed his team’s season up well when he says it was “bittersweet”.
Both Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen won two races, but those good moments were hugely outweighed by no fewer than 11 retirements, including eight for the awfully unlucky Ricciardo.
Engine problems plagued their 2018, leading them to trail constructors’ champions Mercedes by 236 points and to a big decision; switching to Honda power for 2019.
Horner told Autosport: "It's been a bitter sweet season in many respects.
"The victories [were] extremely sweet - winning in China, in Monaco, winning our home grand prix in Austria, and of course Mexico - they [were] the undoubted high points.”
Horner believes that if their car was more reliable they could’ve scored some better results.
He added: "The low points were the amount of times that the car [didn't] make it to the finish, the amount of technical issues that we had to endure, and having to try and counter for deficiencies in outright power.
"That [was] the bitter part of it. Generally, on a Sunday, we had a very strong race car, and the drivers, when they've been able to, have raced extremely strongly."
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