Dr Helmut Marko has hit back at claims that Red Bull’s overweight 2022 car is already lagging behind apparent early frontrunner Ferrari. He admits that the “first analysis” of the Barcelona test is that Maranello based Ferrari has managed to “join” Mercedes and Red Bull at the front of the grid. The drivers, Marko insisted, “got into the car and said ‘Yes, that feels good'”. “I don’t give a damn about stuff like that, I really don’t have time,” the Briton smiled. As for the early pecking order, Marko thinks he has some idea. “I am quite sure that we worked with more fuel than most of the other teams, so I think we are not inferior in speed to Mercedes and we are slightly ahead of Ferrari,” he said.

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