🗣“For sure they’re holding back.” Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner has denied suggestions from George Russell that his team has been sandbagging. ⬇️
“For sure they’re holding back,” Russell told BBC 5 Live in Melbourne. “They’re almost embarrassed to show their full potential because the faster they seem globally the more the sport is going to try to hold them back somehow.
“I think realistically, they probably have seven tenths advantage over the rest of the field. Max has got no reason to be pushing it, nor has Red Bull.Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB19, Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-23Horner laughed off Russell’s suggestion of sandbagging and stressed that it was inevitable that there was some tyre management in Melbourne, especially given that like rivals both Red Bull drivers made early tyre changes.
“That’s very generous of him,” he said when told of Russell’s comments. “I mean, his team would know all too well about those kinds of advantages. “There’s always an element of managing that goes on in any race. You could see because it was a one-stop race and a very early one-stop race, there was an element of tyre management that was going on, which is what they were doing.
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