Christian Horner hailed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen as “decisive” and said “he doesn’t mess about” as he won the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.

Verstappen pitted twice and emerged ahead of Lando Norris, then held off the McLaren driver’s late ꧙charge.

Verstappen started from P2, behind Norris, but hඣad to excellently overtake George Russell who had himself claimed a brilliant early lead ඣof the grand prix.

Red Bull team principal Horner told Sky Sports: “Max drove a brilliant ra𒈔ce toꦓday. Strategically we got it just right.

“We went for an ꦰoptimum race time and it paid off.

“We knew the McLaren would come back with꧅ the overlap on ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe tyre at the end of the race.

“We had just eno༺ugh in hand. It was so decisive, the first lap was crucial.

“The pass on George was even more important.”

Horner said about the crucial moment of Verstappen’s seventh ♓win in 10⭕ rounds this season: “The start was one element.

“The move he needed to put on George,♏ quickly. Then get the tyres under control.

“I can’t express how difficult that is. On❀e on hand you’re telling the driver to cruise and look afte𝓀r the tyres, but he obviously went for it.

“Hꦕe got the pass done then executed a perfect race.

“He did it the hard way. Around the outside. Close, hard, fair racing. We were relieved to see that get done.🐈”

Damon Hill said to Horner abou⛎t Verstappen: “That’s why he gets th💞e big money…”

Horner said about his star drive𝐆r: “He’s so decisive. He just doesn’t mess about.

“He comes about to traffic and he’s so decisive.

“That’s 👍one of his key qualit🐼ies. If he’s there, he will go for it. And the other drivers know that.”

'Lando Norris the standout competitor'

Red Bull’s 🥂weekend in Barcelona ꧃started slowly with an indifferent practice.

Missing pole posi💟tion raised expectation that Verstappen could be kept away from victory aꦏgain.

Horner wa🔜s asked if he believed the RB20 was truly the quickest car of the wꩲeekend: “It’s tight. It’s small margins.

“The two of them were circa 18 seconds ahead of ꦗthe rest of ꦛthe field.

“Lando had l♛ongevity, they went for a sli꧒ghtly different strategy.”

Verstappen, on the other hand, was told to push byไ Red Bull with around 15ཧ laps remaining.

“We felt, at that stage, that he’d done such a goo🥃d job at managing the tyres,” Horner said.

“There was only one corner that we could see whꦺere Lando was quicker. That was Turn 1.

“The rest, [Max] had it covered.

“So, it was always going to get clos𒀰er because of the off-set in pitstops.

“But we always felt confident, from the tools that we had, that he had enough ꦉin ♓hand.”

Verstappen hold🌜s a 69-point advantage at the top of the F1 standings ahead of second-placed Norris.

“Since Miami, Lando has b𝔍een the standout competitor,” Horner said.

“We’v🎃e had 💖to be at the top of our game to win these races.

“They are tight wins but we keep winning.

“McLaren are doing a great job. Ferrari aren’t far away. Mercedes have made progress, as wellꦡ.

“We are just keeping our nose ahead.

“It’s important we keep pushing because there is a🐼 long way to go.”

Red Bull, as last year’s winners of the drivers’ and cons🏅tructors’ championships, have less wind tunnel time than their rivals this sea☂son.

Is it a factor 𒆙in Verstappen’s challenges mou♏nting?

“It is all relative. We had a double whammy last year on the tunne𒈔lℱ time this year,” Horner answered.

“When yoไu run at the front there is nowhere to hide𓂃.

“You get found out. Everything gets scrutinised. Eve🐼ry strategy💯 call, every pitstop.

“It’s a different pressure, a different phil✤oso🦋phy that you’ve got to have.

“We’ve done a lot of winningℱ but haven’t lost that edge of getting♑ it right on the day.”

Horner🅰 vowed more improvements this season: “We have treme𒊎ndous strength in depth in the team. And stability long-term.

“What you see now is work that has been done 🐽over the past few months. There is more to come.

“On Friඣday we looked like the fourth🔥 quickest car. The engineering team turned it around.”