

“I am fighting for a championship and, even if it is just between two cars, we have to make sure the cars are reliable.” “I am not here to be second, so I am not happy,” he said. Verstappen’s reaction was telling in acknowledging that it is almost certainly now a two-horse race. Some drivers have already posited the notion that Red Bull could take a clean sweep of the 23 races this season, a seemingly impossible target that remains an awfully long way off but which, on this form, they have the machinery at the very least to make a possibility.

It was far from a thriller under the floodlights at the Jeddah Corniche circuit rather more a showcase of what increasingly looks to be the indisputable advantage Red Bull hold.
