Christian Horner hails ‘most competitive race to date’ for Red Bull as he insists ‘we were quicker’ than McLaren in Jeddah

“Of course, everybody is super-disappointed in the outcome of the race today. It felt like a race that we had McLaren beat but it is what it is. Congrats to Oscar and we’ll take the positives out of the weekend and focus on Miami.”

Fred Vasseur has called for consistency from his Ferrari team, and that is something Red Bull could seem to do with as well. They were not on the pace in China or Bahrain, yet fast in Japan and Jeddah. But do they understand why the RB21 is proving to have some track-specific issues?

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“Bahrain was the outlier where we were out of a window, and we know there are areas of the car that we need to improve and we’re working very hard to address some of those,” Horner said.

Up next for the team is Miami, which should be another warm race – but it seems to be in the heat that title rivals’ McLaren excel.

“Certainly their pace in the heat on Friday was insane… [But] whatever they did on Friday, they couldn’t replicate in the race,” concluded Horner.