Martin Brundle has declared 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen “the favourite” heading into the 2025 F1 season despite a worrying observation about how Red Bull performed duri🅠ng pre-season testing.

It wasn’t an entirely straightforward three days of testing for Red🅰 Bull at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Verstappen was𓆏 in the RB21 for the whole final day - but didn’t complete a full race run.

Red Bull tested a number of setups and front wing combinations to t൩ry and improve the car's balance.

Th🥀e car looked far from hooked up at times, with Verstappen spinning♎ at Turn 1.

The Dutchman 𓃲was shaking his he💝ad in frustration before slamming the throttle down.

Looking ahead to the first race in Australia next week, Brundle acknowledܫged that the new Red Bull🌌 wasn’t “glued to the race track”.

. “They were saying that they’ve fixed a lot of last year’s problems, but we also saw Max out on track, shaking his head once and spinning up the wheels because he was angry the car went around on him.

“I didn’t s♎ense it  was exactly glued to the race track but they were pretty tricky conditions in that pre-season test. For me, Max starts the season as the favourite because he will be clear number one in that team and Red Bull should have fixed 🌜it.

“He’s so fast, he’s 💙so good. He knows how to win multiple champi🌳onships - so does Lewis.

“His main rivals so far don’t know how to win any F1 world championships - Charles, George, Lando, Oscar Piastri too. I think Max shou♍ld start the season [as the favourite].

“Whoever wins this year’s world championship will wi꧒n a binding world 🐲championship.”

Red Bull expected to be behind McLaren in Australia

The general consensus is tha𒀰t Red Bull will start the year behind McLaren.

McLaren enjoyed a strong pre-season despite both drivers struggling with rear ins🃏tability when behind the wh𝓀eel of the MCL39.

Red Bull remain confident that they’ve ironed out some of the handling issues that plagued Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez in the latter half of last year.

Red Bull technical chief Pierre Wache has conceded that McLaren and probably Ferrari are a☂head heading into Melbourne ne𒆙xt weekend.

“I think it will be tight,” W🍨ache said to . “At the moment it doesn’t look like we are quick enough, but after we will see. It looks like McLaren and Ferrari are quicker.”