The slow beginning of Red Bull for the 2025 season of Formula 1 has led to emergency meetings at the Paddock to discuss a forward plan, and already caused a driver switch.
As well as the speculation about the future of your other seat.
The future of Max Verstappen with Red Bull has been a constant point of speculation through the Paddock of F1, and the main advisor of Red Bull, Helmut Marko, fueled those flames after a difficult weekend for the team in the Bahrein Grand Prix. When Verstappen struggled for a sixth place due to problems along Pit Lane and a car that is still difficult to solve, Marko opened the greatest speculation when speaking after the race a Sky Sports Germany.
“The group [about Verstappen leaving] It’s great, “Marko said in Bahrain.” As I said, the improvements have to come in the near future to have a car with which I can win again.
“We have to create a base with a car so you can fight for the World Championship.”
While Marko could have opened that, Verstappen closed it, as he has done before. Speaking at the FIA press conference before the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix of this weekend, Verstappen
“It seems that everyone is talking about my future, except me. I am focused on the car and working with the team,” Verstappen said as quoted by the F1 writer, Erik Van Haren.
“I am very relaxed,” added the four times champion.
The Red Bull driver described part of his current frustration with the team challenger, the RB21. “We fight with balance, the entrance to the balance of the central corner is not where I want it to be,” Verstappen said.
“Hopefully the asphalt here is better.
“I am happy, I am not very happy with my car. But all because to be better, there is no secret in that. We all want to improve,” says Verstappen.
Hey, he also found some comfort in the speed with which the script overturned last season. Red Bull was the year as the dominant package on the network, but at the end of the season, McLaren was at the top of the classification of the Construction Championship.
Now it is McLaren in the front, and it is Red Bull chasing them.
“I’m just going to run for a race. I think it will be better than Bahrain.
“The rest is out of my hands: at this time, we are not the fastest, so it is difficult to fight for a championship, but it is a long way.
“Last year here he looked great and we know how the season ended,” Verstappen concluded.