Ex-F1 driver David Coulth⭕ard believes it was inevitable Red Bull’s dominance would come to an end after 2023, drawing a comparison to being🃏 “close to the summit of Everest”.

Red Bull won 21 ofಌ the 22 races in 2023 in what was a historic year for the team.

Fast forward t🔴o 2024, they dropped down to third in the F1 constructors’ championship, winning just two of the last 14 races.

It was still enough for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to win his fourth consecutive title, but Red Bull’s era of dominance had truly come to an enဣd.

When assessing his former tea𒁏m’s dif♓ficulties last year, Coulthard conceded that Red Bull found it “very difficult” to “innovate” after their record-breaking campaign.

“I’ve been around long enough to kꩲnow that just because you’ve won in the past doesn’t🌱 mean it will continue like that. It was such a dominant year last year [2023],” he told .

“When you ✅are so close to the summit of Everest, it is simply very difficult to make innovations.”

Red♌ Bull still won more races than McLaren and Ferrari in 2024 – even though those two teams finished ahead in the F1 constructors’ championship.

Coulthard added: “There was clearly a path,𒉰 a direction that they took with the car that still won ten (nine) Grand Prix, still more than any other.

“Correlation is always the big thing. If it works, it works, and if it doesn’t… If it were that ꦦsimple, y🥂ou would just give the rules to an AI tool.

“If it were that simple, everyone would just build the same 𝄹car. But꧃ that’s just not the case.”

Coulthard hails McLaren turnaround

It’s been a remarkable two years for McLaren.

They started the 2023 campaign with the slowest car, as both 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri languished at the back of the grid.

An upgrade i🍸n Austria transformed their season as Norris regularly finished on the podium behind Verstappen in the 💯second part of the year.

In 2024, ꦐan upgrade in Miami turned them from the third-fastest team to title contenders.

“It has always been in the ability of the top teams to deliver performance from one seas🍰on to the next,” Coulthard said. “So well done, McLar🧸en! What an amazing turnaround.

“Everyone talks about how it’s been 26 years since they last won the coᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnstructors’ championship, but someone reminded me that they dꦜid win it with Hamilton and Alonso, but were only banned retrospectively.

“I had forgotten that too. But even if we ignore that, it was 🍌a really long time ago.”