Red Bull were the main team to beat Mercedes a year ago and completed second in the title. Yet, albeit Red Bull were plainly the third best team in Melbourne, there is justifiable reason motivation to trust they will make it a three-path battle at the front in 2017.
Red Bull concede they have work to do with both their body and the Renault engine, yet upgrades to evident shortcomings are en route.
Red Bull were one of the prime movers behind the push for speedier, all the more requesting Formula 1 cars this season, so it is to some degree unexpected that they began the season off the pace of Ferrari and Mercedes.
All is not lost, be that as it may, for the team that a little more than three years back were commending their fourth successive world title twofold.
Red Bull qualified 1.3 seconds off shaft position in Australia. Which sounds a ton – to be sure, it is a considerable measure. In any case, it merits remembering that last year, which they finished with two triumphs and could have had three, they were 1.6 seconds off the pace at Albert Park.
In the race, their pace was difficult to judge – Daniel Ricciardo was never truly in it after what team boss Christian Horner said was an “end of the week from damnation”. Also, Max Verstappen spent a significant part of the evening restrained behind Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. There were just a modest bunch of laps in the principal stretch in which Verstappen was over two seconds behind Raikkonen – the crevice at which drivers say their car begins to be influenced by streamlined turbulence from taking after another car.
