Red Bull’s recent struggles have prompted the debate of whether or not the squad’s car is really that much quicker than its sister team Racing Bulls.
Yesterday McLaren chief Zak Brown told Sky: “Red Bull would be behind Racing Bulls [without Verstappen]. They have done a great job and have a great racing car. I think Max is carrying them at the moment.”
Liam Lawson has driven both this season, and it’s safe to say he doesn’t agree.
“I don’t think Zak Brown understands, honestly,” he replied when asked about it by our own Mark Mann-Bryans. “It’s easy to comment on stuff when you’re not involved and you’re outside of the picture, so I don’t think he understands.”
Lawson took sixth place last weekend in Austria, which quietened a few doubters. “The best way to respond to anything is by performing well and that’s what we obviously set out to do every weekend,” he added. “There’s a lot of variables in Formula 1 and quite often you can have all the right ingredients, you can have speed and everything and I think we’ve had that for quite a while.
“It just never came together when it needed to and in Austria it did, which is great but we need to continue doing that.”
