Red Bull and Ferrari are ready to fight for the title this season. Developments will make the difference, with the budget cap issue looming ever more
Situation to monitor. There challenge between Red Bull and Ferrari it continues to grow, on every front. The fight for the world title is getting more and more alive and only the team that will be able to do more updates Winning will be able to triumph. But watch out for budget cap…
Red Bull ahead
Evaluating the updates brought, for the moment, the situation would say: Red Bull-Ferrari 1-0. The motivation is also very simple: Red Bull it has already brought a pack of upgrades really important in Imola. The Austrian stable played a lot on the loss of weight checked. At the beginning of the season, the stable had been declared more overweight of the paddock, but the work carried out in Milton Keynes is bearing the hoped-for results.
The Red responds
However, Ferrari is not just watching. At Imola and Miami, the update package mounted on the RB18 made itself felt, so much so that Binotto declared: “That's two tenths faster our“. Statement that made the idea very clear on strength current of Red Bull. But there is also another factor that the team principal of the Red he wanted to remark: “They have updated the car since the start of the season, which we have not done".
Ferrari prepares updates, Red Bull too
For Barcelona they are indeed expected updates important by the Maranello team. The track, based on the layout chand may undergo changes, it would seem help the Ferrari. For these reasons, and also because we are the sixth race of the year, Binotto has already confirmed the new arrival between the bottom and the very charged rear wing. The goal is clearly respond to Red Bull and try to limit that advantage seen in the two previous Grands Prix. There news bigger, however, falls within the statements of Helmut Marko: “In Barcelona we will lose weight again." The Red Bull consultant therefore made it clear that the Austrian team is also in Montmelò will bring updates. There is talk of a weight loss of around 3-5 kg, which means a lot in Formula One.
And the budget cap?
But with all these updates planned by Red Bull… you risk it on budget cap? A very hot question arises on the subject. Bringing, only after six races, so much news on the car has a bit impressed the paddock. Mattia Binotto was in fact interested in the story stating: “They have obviously spent money. I hope for that at some point due to budget cap sthey will bring about developments, while we would still have updates available“. Ferrari's position is therefore very clear. Also on the basis of various studies done in Maranello, Red Bull has already put a lot of money into its wallet and the imposed limit from the budget cap it can start to make itself felt.
Budget cap problem, Marko reassures
However, the situation around the budget cap at Red Bull is not the same all clear. In fact, in recent days the news has spread that Red Bull may have already spent the 75% of the maximum $140 million, which would be worrying. TO deny however what happened was once again Marko exclusively to Motorsport-Total.com.
“On the budget cap aspect, I don't think we are in a significantly different position from Ferrari in this respect. Rather I wonder how it will affect the fact that Carlos Sainz has had various accidents with the car. It can't be cheap."
Therefore, we do not yet have a complete picture on the subject. To find out more, it remains to understand at this point how many updates Red Bull will be ready to bring after Montmelò. But one thing seems to be certain: Ferrari-Red Bull, we are only at the beginning.
