Looking at the smoothy greased drive of Max Verstappen with the RB19 in the Australian Grand Prix, it was clear that he didn’t even put much effort into winning the race. His team already did the homework with the car. And all that Max had to do was drive with the best skills he had. He did. He won. Meanwhile, the rival driver George Russell is not surprised to scrutinize the 9 seconds gap between Max Verstappen with the driver behind him, who, fortunately, was Lewis Hamilton. According to Russell’s claims, Red Bull is sandbagging. He feels that the power of the Red Bull engine is a lot more than the Max and Checo are using. They are hiding the actual performance of RB19 because they are avoiding the interrogation of FIA.
When Max Verstappen was driving the RB19 in Saudi Arabia, the seven-time world champion figured out that it was the fastest car he had ever seen in his entire F1 career. At the moment, Lewis Hamilton claimed that RB19 is faster than Mercedes ever was, even in their dominance era. In Australia, Max was kicked off the track, he was behind Hamilton. But he once again ended up with a nine-second lead. Sergio Perez also started from P20 and finished fifth.
Are these results not explaining that Milton Keynes must be holding back something? They must have found some trick to bring the pace no other can even think of. And now, they don’t want to reveal their dominance so apparent that FIA starts intervening with them. Well, George Russell is now fully convinced.
“It Is Not Necessary To Risk Them All” Max Verstappen Speaks About The Sandbagging Allegations
After the Australian Grand Prix, the 25-year-old Mercedes driver suggested that, “Red Bull is almost embarrassed to show their full potential. And the reason for this is that the faster they seem, the more complications they will face from the sport in order to hold them back.” In conclusion, Russell can calculate a seven-tenths advantage Red Bull has over the rest of the field.
At this moment, George may have forgotten what is the pace difference looking like. But he can remember that Max Verstappen has nothing to push for a pace, nor has Red Bull. The Austrian team has done a really great job. “We can’t take that away. What we can do is UP OUR game,” said Russell, as quoted by FanNation.
On the contrary, Max Verstappen emerged to deny all those claims of George Russell that suggests Red Bull is sandbagging. Speaking with the BBC, the two-time world champion said, “We are just trying to do our best with the upgrades and development of the Red Bull racing cars“. However, at present, things are about managing the pace. This is because no one really knows when the tyre will expire! Max admitted that Red Bull has the best pace but can’t agree to the fact that they are hiding their true potential.
According to the reigning champ, there is no need to gain half a second lap and destroy the tyres to death. This apparently causes safety cars, Red Flags, and the chaos that the fans already saw in Australia. In the end, he cleared that Red Bull does not find it necessary to risk all the pace they have!
