Why Verustapain feels that the red bull cannot just put his crises for the old wind tunnel

Max Verustapane It is said that his red bull car handling issues cannot only be held responsible for the issues of correlation with the aging wind tunnel of the Formula 1 squad.

Red Bull has a hard start for the season with a car that is difficult for balance and is suffering from wearing more tires than the leading McLaren,

Verustapane succeeded in limiting the loss in the first two rounds and then won a shock pole -to -flag in Japan, but the Bahrain Grand Prix of the previous weekend – a warm and abrasive on the circuit which was difficult on the rear tires – exposed the weaknesses of RB 21, a short sixth with Verustaain, ahead.

Later the team’s boss Christian Horner admitted that the Red Bull is still struggling with similar technical issues, which had made it powerless to protect an initial championship lead against McLaren last year, with it it was understood. Whatever quirks are experiencing on the track, it cannot be completely repeated in his aging wind tunnel,

The team is building a new tunnel in Milton Keins, but it will not go online before 2027. Verustapane admitted that the discrepancies of Red Bull’s wind tunnel were not helping cases, but said that the team was still successful with the unit in 2022 and 2023, so it could not poinse all the fingers to its intelligent.

“Of course, we are not fully happy with this and we are working on a new wind tunnel,” Vastapain told the Dutch media including Autosport. “It just takes time, but we already knew that this is nothing new in this season. We saw back in 2023 that you could not locate some things in the wind tunnel.

“But the team has experience with it, so they know in which direction they should develop. The only issue is that they cannot correct some small details. But it worked in 2022 and 2023, and in 2021 we also had a good car under separate rules. So I will not tell just everything (window).”

Asked if the team’s current crisis is making him pessimistic for 2026 possibilities, he replied: “Okay, it’s a completely different car, so you can’t compare it. It can be a separate team that suddenly gets right.”