The Red Bull driver’s first title may have been won in dramatic and controversial circumstances in Abu Dhabi last year, but the only remaining question marks over his second are when he will clinch it. The Red Bull team principal Christian Horner described it as “a phenomenal performance”. Red Bull surely can’t be as dominant as this at all the remaining eight races. “The car has been incredible from first practice,” Verstappen said. How to explain such dominance, in a season in which Red Bull and Ferrari have until now been so close it is difficult to say which team has the faster car?. Leclerc, who is now 98 points adrift of Verstappen in the championship, said: “If you look at Red Bull, they were on another level. “Our car is just very efficient and this track suits it perfectly,” Verstappen said. “But there are some race tracks that will suit our car much more than now.

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