Would Max Verustapane be fighting for the F1 title if he was in the racing bulls?

This is one of the more complicated fancifles of the 2025 Formula 1 season: how will it happen Max Verustapane Rent if he was not driving Red bull racingbut instead Racing bullsSpecifically given that experts like Ralph Schumacher believe that the junior team has a better basis this year than the Red Bull.

Sky Pandit declared in the latest episode, “I am almost saying that Max can theoretically fight for the championship with that car.” Backstage boxengasse podcast. Their argument: “The car is simply widespread in its scope, so you can work on every circuit.”

Shumakar further estimated that Verustapen could bring all his experiences to racing bulls, and that the technological development of the car could “take a very different course” on the board “.

If you compare each team’s lower cars in the championship, the raw number refund the principle of Shumakar: Liam Lawson Till now racing bulls have scored 20 points, while Yuki Sunoda Only nine is managed for red bull racing.

Red Bull has also not considered a verstappen test in VCARB 02, it is clear: The rivals have kept a very close watch on whether the two teams, which are owned by both the Red Bull GMBH, are actually independently operated. A Vastapane Outing in the junior team will reduce the claim of the Red Bull that the two organizations are run separately.

David coolthard A Vastapane test will find a lot more anyway, as he said more than the same phenomenon in the zandwort last week: “They have received data. The data is based on all factual information. Therefore, he would know how both cars are compared to that information.

“They will know how both cars are performing using all that data. The only thing they do not have. The input of Max is whether it will be half a second faster in RB, or perhaps the car does not suit him.”

Westpane racing will excel in bulls, however, Coolthard has no doubt: “There will be only two laps to get maximum from any of those cars.

“I think he will perform in any car. It is very fast and very difficult to defeat his team partner.”

However, Helmut Marco has always crushed such a fictional in the root. Asked if Red Bull had ever considered putting the Vastapane in VCARB 02, his reply was an immediate “no”.

In his view, nothing could be learned from this. The design of two cars is just very different.

“You know where the cars are coming from, it is very different for anyone to move anything from the car to another,” Red Bull Team Principal Laurent Macis Told Akash.

“What is this Formula 1 today. You know, it is 10 independent team that is coming with its own ideas, where the car has to be developed, what difficulties they have found on the way, which are the way of development, which are the way they have ended. And there is nothing that you can take from one car to another. How it really developed from below.”

However, this is true – as television commentator and media reports often state – it is that racing bulls sees a more forgiving car than the red bull. RB21 may have high peak capacityBut it operates within a very narrow window. And till now, Vastapane alone seems to be able to handle that knife-kanare alone.

Alan parent, Macis successor in racing bullsGives a fine counterpoint: “A lot has been made as an easy car to drive it. Many people have talked about it, and they see how the drivers face it. But in fact, I think it’s what it is, it’s an easy car in the optimal window for engineers.

“We need to get the setup correctly, drivers need to perform correctly, the car needs to be compatible with the circuit, and then we can be the top.”

In ZandwortHadzar ended for less than two seconds after 72 laps. Naturally, many people are asking: Maybe Vastapane may have done even better work in the junior team car?

Paramanya rejected the notion that VCARB is 02, by very DNA, there is a crook-friendly machine.

“No, I don’t think so, honestly,” he explained. “I think this is what we discovered in winter from last year to this year. We have made a car, and you are right, it helps when you have a crook driver, but I suspect that it is a car that a top-line driver will also find comfortable to drive and will also be able to remove the performance.”

Tantalizing fantasy of many fans – looking at verstappen in a VCARB 02 – thus it will be the only one: a fantasy. Even if the Red Bull Boss may secretly like to try it for reference, such a test will immediately question the freedom of two teams – and therefore, in practice, is impossible.

This was not always the case, by chance. In September 1997, Michael Schumacheralready a Ferrari Works driver, tested Save C16 in Firano. Saubar wanted his input on the car, and both Shumakar and Ferrari agreed, partly because Saubar was then a Ferrari engine customer.

Subsequently, the freedom of teams was not just a focal issue, it has become after nearly three decades.

Additional reporting by Ronald Wording and Irwin Jigi.