The problems inside the energy drinks lit alarms since last season, and it is so far that the world champion Max Verstappen It makes it evident.
After several dominant seasons of Red Bull in Formula 1finally the problems with the development and performance of the car of Milton Keynes has generated a gap with the McLaren, leaving aside the theory that Max Verstappen is a ‘pilot of another planet’.
And it has been the Dutch who has no longer been able to hide what is happening with the RB21, a car with which he is sure he will not be able to reach his fifth consecutive world championship.
Max Verstappen receives a reality blow after the BARÉIN 2025 GP
Mad Max’s nightmare started from free practices in Sakhir, which could not mark the best times. The classification was not better, because Yuki Tsunoda coequipero was left with the seventh position, staying at 0.582 seconds of the pole man of McLaren, Oscar Piastri.
The demand that a layout like Baréin was caused that the deficiencies of the Red Bull were evident, and that was allowed to glimpse, by ensuring that it is only participating in one more season, since the rhythm in the RB21 is non -existent.
“McLaren is not my rival right now. I’m simply participating in this world championship,” Max said during the weekend.
As expected, the race was a true torture for the four times world champion, who despite marking a few fast laps, could not overcome the flyers of McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari, staying in sixth place of the race and in third place in the pilot championship with 69 points so far.
At the end of the campaign, the Dutch shared his impressions about his performance, ensuring that both he and Tsunoda did the best they could with what they had, because the general rhythm of his car was very bad this weekend.
After the race it is said that the drama continued inside the red bull garage, because according to Sky Sports journalist, Ted Kravitz, Max’s representative, Raymund Vermeulen and Helmut Marko, Red Bull advisor, had a heated discussion.
The dimes and diretes have already started and as expected, many speculate that Red Bull’s golden child could leave the team at the end of the year and join the number one enemy of his team: Mercedes. As always, it only remains to wait, because in the great circus nothing is written.
