Ted Kravitz gives three advantages that make Red Bull “almost unbeatable”
At the start of the winter testing, English channel SkySport journalist Ted Kravitz highlighted three points of the Austrian team, which he believes to be nearly unbeatable for this season.
With 17 wins in 22 races last year, and both driver and constructor titles acquired, it is difficult not to consider Red Bull as the favorite for their own succession.
The journalist, Ted Kravitz, who covers the Grand Prix from the pits for Sky Sports F1, shares this sentiment and supports it by highlighting three areas that make the energy drink team the favorite to win the championship in 2023.
A lightweight frame
First point is a revised chassis, developed last year on the RB18, towards the end of the season, but has not yet been seen in a race.
« Red Bull will start with the lightweight chassis they have introduced and designed, and we believe it has never been raced at the end of the year [2022]. They will start with that as a foundation. They will develop it, so it will be underweight, and they will be able to add ballast to meet the weight limit. »
The ballasting will have the advantage of being able to optimize the weight distribution on the RB19, in order to have better balance on the track.
No impact on “academic work”.
The second advantage highlighted by Kravitz is the academic and design work that Red Bull was able to do before the cost cap restrictions came into play, due to their exceeding the budget cap of 2021.
They have therefore done all the work even before it happens and towards the end of this year and next year, it will start to bite.
A lion in the car.
Finally, he believes that Red Bull has the strongest driver currently in F1.
And number three, they have the best driver on the grid in terms of form at the moment. Even considering Lewis Hamilton. We haven’t seen Lewis’ form in the championship yet because he hasn’t been in the fight for the championship since the end of 2021, and we know what happened then.
Max Verstappen is in great shape and I think he is the third part of a secret weapon that should make them almost unbeatable.
Even if Christian Horner believes that the penalty imposed on Red Bull “significantly limits” the development.
, the boss of the Mercedes team, Toto Wolff, believes that despite more time spent in the wind tunnel, Mercedes will not be able to beat Red Bull.
