Horner: I've never seen Max work so hard.
Red Bull Racing had a bad start to the season, but the team leader believes that the situation can be turned around.…
Christian Horner: "Everything was decided in the first segment. Max went to the pit stop 18 seconds behind Oscar, and by the finish flag he was 16 seconds behind - we were competitive on the Hard tires. Perhaps we overdid the compensation for tire degradation that we saw on Saturday.
We need to find more speed, it will simplify everything. But Max had another great race. Fourth place and important points are not bad, but we still have a lot to work on.
It's only the second race behind us, and we're only eight points behind in the drivers' championship – we're still ahead. Last year taught us that you can start the season any way you want, but it's important how you finish it.
We have a strong team and experienced specialists in all fields. Everyone in the company knows that we have a lot to strive for. We have the tools and people to turn the situation around, we just need to figure it out – and today we have collected a lot of useful information.
I've never seen Max work as hard as he does today. He's more closely integrated into the engineering group than I've ever seen, and he likes that aspect.
In the case of Lawson, we decided to seriously change the settings of his car, since he started behind anyway. We can't work with these cars in the tests, so it made sense to say, "We're starting from the back, let's try to learn something." Now we have 56 laps of information about the operation of the machine with radically different settings. That's a lot of information to analyze.
Liam did everything he could. He's giving his all, attacking with all his might, but so far he hasn't been able to find the limit of this car's capabilities and squeeze the most out of it. We, as a team, try to support him.
Fast cars are never easy to drive, but we know that we need to be more efficient, that we need both drivers to have any chance of competing for the Constructors' Cup and the Drivers' championship. You can't do that on one leg."
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