Red Bull can secure the constructors’ championship as early as Singapore
First match point for Red Bull in Singapore. With a 310-point lead over Mercedes in the championship, the Austrian team has the opportunity to clinch their sixth world title on the Marina Bay track.
Red Bull is experiencing an exceptional season. Undefeated since Bahrain, and even since the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last year, the Austrian team is in the process of writing a quite incredible chapter in the history of F1. After 14 races competed in 2023, the team led by Christian Horner continues to dominate the competition, leaving the other teams to fight for the scraps left by the drivers from Milton Keynes.
An exceptional record
Since its debut in Melbourne in 2005, Red Bull has won 6 driver’s titles, 5 constructor’s titles, 106 victories, achieved 91 pole positions, 92 fastest laps and 28 doubles. An simply exceptional record when we know that the team was fighting at the back of the grid twenty years ago when it was still called Jaguar.
Red Bull is therefore in sixth place among constructors in terms of number of titles, two units behind Lotus, and still far behind Ferrari, who leads this ranking of statistics with 16 championships won.
During the next Grand Prix in Singapore, there is a small chance that Red Bull could win its sixth constructors’ championship. With a 310-point lead over its closest competitor Mercedes (583 to 273), the Austrian team needs to score 43 points more than its German rival.
In terms of results, Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez must achieve a one-two finish, which would be Red Bull’s seventh this season, without Mercedes scoring any points in order for Red Bull to win a second consecutive constructors’ title. If Lewis Hamilton or George Russell were to score a point, Verstappen or Pérez would then be required to earn the fastest lap point to maintain the crucial 43-point lead over Mercedes.
A probability, albeit extremely small, but still exists, considering that Mercedes struggled last year at Marina Bay with a 9th place for Hamilton and a 14th place for Russell. However, a double victory is a rare commodity in the city-state, as in the 13 editions of the Singapore Grand Prix, only Ferrari in 2019 managed to achieve it.
The question is no longer about whether Red Bull will be crowned, but rather when the Austrian team will win its sixth title. If it doesn’t happen this weekend, we will have to wait another week for the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka to calculate new title probabilities.
