Ferrari and Red Bull Racing were evenly matched in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, while the Italians were clearly ahead in Australia. Sky GP expert Timo Glock assesses the duel Leclerc against Verstappen.
Ferrari drove in its own league in Australia, which is also recognized by 91-time GP participant Timo Glock (40), today the Formula 1 expert of our German colleagues from Sky. The man from Lindenfels says: “Ferrari clearly has the strongest and most consistent package, which has worked very well on the previous track variants and is gentle on all tire compounds. The Scuderia always gets the tires in the optimal working window.»
“At the weekend in Australia we saw that all the other teams are weak in this area – especially the Red Bull Racing cars, which were only able to keep up with Leclerc’s pace at the beginning, but then quickly got graining on the left front. This graining of the tire surface was not seen at Ferrari.”
There is also a lot of praise for the driver from the German tenth in the 2008 and 2009 World Championship: “Charles Leclerc also showed a very strong performance and kept the upper hand in all phases of the Grands Prix – apart from a small mistake when he Start had understeer when accelerating out and Max Verstappen was able to attack him. The world champion only came that close to the Monegasque this one time.”
The question is: how is this going to continue? Timo Glock believes: “At Red Bull Racing, mistakes have to be eliminated. It is necessary to analyze why this is the case. This is the worst possible start to the World Championship for RBR because they lost too many points in the first three races.”
“Understandably, Max Verstappen reacted annoyed to this topic in Melbourne. But he has to be patient now. He has a car that works well and that he can fight for the world title with. But for that Red Bull Racing has to solve the technical problems as soon as possible. »
GP Australien
01. Charles Leclerc (MC), Ferrari, 1:27:46.548 hrs
02. Sergio Pérez (MEX), Red Bull Racing, +20,524 sec
03. George Russell (GB), Mercedes, +25,593
04. Lewis Hamilton (GB), Mercedes, +28,543
05. Lando Norris (GB), McLaren, +53,303
06. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS), McLaren, +53.737
07. Esteban Ocon (F), Alpine, +61,683
08. Valtteri Bottas (FIN), Alfa Romeo, +68,439
09. Pierre Gasly (F), AlphaTauri, +76,221
10. Alex Albon (T), Williams, +79,382
11. Guanyu Zhou (RC), Alfa Romeo, +81,695
12. Lance Stroll (CDN), Aston Martin, +88,598
13. Mick Schumacher (D), Haas, +1 lap
14. Kevin Magnussen (DK), Haas, +1 Round
15. Yuki Tsotaka (J), AlphaTauri, +1 Runde
16. Nicholas Latifi (CDN), Williams, +1 Runde
17. Fernando Alonso (E), Alpine, +1 round
Out
Max Verstappen (NL), Red Bull Racing, Motor
Sebastian Vettel (D), Aston Martin, accident
Carlos Sainz (E), Ferrari, Dreher
World Championship Standing Driver
01. Leclerc 71 Punkte
02. Russell 37
03. Sainz 33
04. Pérez 30
05. Hamilton 28
06. Verstappen 25
07. Ocon 20
08. Norris 16
09. Magnussen 12
10. Bottas 12
11. Ricciardo 8
12. Gasly 6
13. Tsunoda 4
14. Alonso 2
15. Zhou 1
16. Albon 1
17. Schumacher 0
18. Stroll 0
19. Hülkenberg 0
20. Latifi 0
21. Vettel 0
World Cup booth designers
01 Ferrari 104 points
02. Mercedes 65
03. Red Bull Racing 55
04. McLaren 24
05. Alpine 22
06. Alfa Romeo 13
07. Haas 12
08. AlphaTauri 10
09. Williams 1
10. Aston Martin 0