McLaren boss Andrea Stella says it is an “illusion” to think that Formula 1 rivals are closing in on Red Bull based on shrinking qualifying gaps.
Major update pushes from Red Bull’s rivals have appeared to lift teams like McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes ever closer to F1’s benchmark squad. This seemed especially true in the sprint shootout qualifying at the United States Grand Prix where the top four teams were covered by just more than one tenth of a second. But with world champion Max Verstappen converting his pole position advantage of 0.055s into a crushing win of 9.
“I think we're actually understanding quite a bit why nowadays, when you look at Red Bull, why having to run the car in a certain way, makes it more aggressive to the tyres. And this is something we are working on. “On tracks like this, where degradation is so high, then I wasn't really surprised to see that this happened and they had this kind of advantage. “If you only look at new tyres, especially the new soft, you may be under the illusion that ‘oh, we've closed the gap.
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