Mercedes predict Red Bull F1 Singapore GP “mistake won’t happen again” 

Mercedes say they cannot foresee a repeat of Red Bull’s unexpected performance struggles from the F1 Singapore Grand Prix. 
Mercedes predict Red Bull Singapore “mistake won’t happen again”

A sudden turnaround of the F1 formbook occurred last time out in Singapore as Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz capitalised on Red Bull’s rare lack of competitivenওess to claim the only non-Red Bull win of 2023. 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Sergio Perez could only salvage a fifth and eighth place finish as the Marina Bay Street Circuit exposed unkn🍸own weaknesses of Red Bull’s previously unbeaten RB19 challenger. ജ;

But Mercedes, who also ﷽suffered from unusual performance slumps in Singapore during their own spell of F1 dominance, do not expect Red Bull’s pace to be hampered again.

"The problem that we had was 𝔉actuall𓃲y quite specific to the old set of regulations and how the car was working aerodynamically,” Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said at the Japanese Grand Prix. 

“It's very bad for overheating, it’s a street track, it's quite bumpy. If the drivers haven't got c💙༒onfidence, that will always rob quite a lot of lap time off them. 

Mercedes predict Red Bull Singapore “mistake won’t happen again”

“And in particular, it's really hard to keep your rear tyres undeꦉr control because of all those traction zones. So, it's quite a nuanced circuit. 

“But you know, we've had one really, rea🍎lly difficult year there, it was very good for learning and probably you'd say Re𝔍d Bull will find the same: that they'll get to the bottom of what went wrong, and it won't be a mistake that'll happen again.” 

Indeed, Red Bull dispelled any suggestions they might suffer something of a performance hangover as Verstappen comfo✨rtably topped both ไFriday practice sessions at Suzuka. 

“I don't think we expected it t🦋o be such a big challenge as it proved to be,” Red Bull team principal Christian Ho🅠rner said of his side’s Singapore woes. 

“And I think we ended up in a window with the car, set-up-wise, that was suboptimal. I 🍸think we have recovered, to a degree, for the Grand Prix, for the race. 

“Unfortunately, when you get into a situation like that, the Safety Car came out at just the wrong time for꧅ us, and then the VSC, almost even worse.

“So I think without that, actually, we'd have been in that group fighting for a podium𒊎 at the end of the race, but it wasn't to be and, you know, the others did a great job, better than us. So, you know, we brush ourselves down and go again, here.” 

Max Verstappen (NLD), Red Bull Racing Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 17, Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka, Japan, Practice
Max Verstappen (NLD), Red Bull Racing Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 17, Japanese Grand Prix…

Horner added: “There's never a silver bullet wi🎶th any of these things. It'sඣ a combination of how is your interaction with aerodynamics and mechanical set-up; it interacts, obviously, with the tyres and the layout of the circuit. 

“I think it is a combination or how you run the combination of your set-up. And I think we'd be probably a lit☂tle different to where we started. And yeah, I think there's a lot of lessons that we've taken out of that.”

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