Ralf Schumacher doubts whether Red Bull Racing is able to close the gap with Mercedes. According to the former Formula1 driver Mercedes now has the faster car and Red Bull still has to make the best of it.
Verstappen leads the world championship, but where the Dutchman seemed to have the better car in the early stages of the season, Mercedes have made a clear step forward since the Russian Grand Prix. Schumacher wonders if Red Bull can still recover this in the last six races.
Feisty finale for Red Bull
''There could possibly be a tough end to the year for Red Bull, too, if they cannot close the small gap to Mercedes in terms of engine performance. Now it is important for Red Bull to take a step, because Mercedes is a bit faster from the car and package at the moment,'' Schumacher said at Sky Germany.
''Mercedes has become very strong in the last two races. At the moment everything speaks for Lewis, but Red Bull has certainly not given up'', concludes Michael Schumacher's brother. With six races to go anything is still possible so we will have to wait and see until the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Schumacher is in days counting mode now before Lewis surpass his brother.
Let's hope W12 prevails. But the RB16B had sooo many upgrades it should win even driven by a blind man. That car is a rocketship. If Lewis has no more engine troubles he has a good chance to get that 8th title.
Max was just 0.3 seconds off the pole, with that f*cked up setup. Redbull probably turned down their engines in the race. Merc have turned up their engines, but that won't be enough as long as Redbull nail the setup.
I agree, the Redbull issue is the setup takes too long to get right. I think the PU change and now the chassis change may make that worst. The Mercedes have made good inroads but reliability does concern me , Austin will reveal a lot.
It will be tough like it has always been but yeah with newey in top command and himself in charge for new chassis if max gets that in Austin it should not be very difficult for RB to put the car in right window
Yeah exactly man Adrian's design of a high rake car (basically RB) is a bit complex to adjust and yeah I think if they have the setup in the right window..it's gonna be exciting..the tensions of that high speed of mercs is abit more pronounced at this moment
Max will find the time he all ways dose, they never had the fastest car, his all made the difference so we will se what happens,
I don't think that Redbull will be able to match Mercedes pace on straight line all they can do is maximize in the corners and make up for that..Austin can provide a bit clear image for the championship
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