Christian Horner will be scratching his head in confusion after Red Bull were outperformed by their sister team on Friday 🍌at the F1 Australian Grand Prix, it was claimed.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Racing Bulls duo 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda and rookie 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Isack Hadjar were 🦩fourth and sixth on the practice timesheet respectively.

Although Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc an💦d both McLarens went faster, and Lewis Hamilton was between them, it was an outstanding start to the 2025 F1 campaign for Racing Bulls.

“Both drivers are doing a great job, showing a lot 💧of confidence,” Karun Chan🎶dhok told Sky Sports.

“Hadjar particularly, on his firsღt day as a grand prix driver, to be ahead of Verstapꦯpen!

“I im💖agine there areꦿ stern conversations going on back-and-forth.

“It’s on Friday and we don’t know the engine mode⛦s. But [Racing Bulls] will sleep well tonight.

“I’m not sure that the Red Bull camp will. He⛦ was six tenths away from Leclerc’s time.”

Red Bull 'head-scratching' after F1 Australian GP practice

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen was se♒venth in practice for the F1 Australian Grand Prix, while his new teammate Liam Laꩵwson was worryingly 17th.

Given McLaren entered the season expected to possess the fastest car, and Ferrari ✨had hype surrounding Hamilton and the competitiveness of their SF-25, it was an early setback for Red Bull.

“Max was deep into Turn 1 and 3, he couldn’t get the car stopped. His drive was 🥂edgy,” Chandhok assessed.

“Lawson didn’t look comfortable. At no point did he pop up on t𒆙he timesheet.

“Even when he went fr🍸om the mediu♈m to the soft, he was still behind Max’s medium time.

“It’s been a tough day, he was six tenths away fro🦩m Max.

“There will be some head-scratching.

“But tomorrow is a fresh day and we’ll see 💮if they can drag themselves out.”

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Red Bull are no strangers to turning a below-par Friday into an outstanding Saturday, particularly with Vers൲tappen behind the wheel of their car.

Verstappen, who is chasing a fifth consecutive drivers’ title this season, claimed the balance of his RB21 was fiไne 🧸but he struggled with grip.

He conceded that the nature of his problems might be difficult for his engineers to solv🅰e before qualifying☂.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner also mo♋unted a defence of Lawson, who was half-a-second slower than ꧑Verstappen in practice.

Lawson occupies the unenviable role of Verstappen’s teammate, ༒a status which has chewed up five prev🦩ious drivers.

Horner a𝄹dmitted that Lawson was sl🌃ow on Friday but insisted he was a rookie (despite him driving in 11 grands prix prior to 2025), and that he would be given time to grow into his role.