Red Bull also spent the winter trying to right some car development wrongs – or in team boss Christian Horner’s words, “the vices” that caused “peaky performance” last season. While Max Verstappen’s best time put the team fourth overall, they were bottom of the pile when it came to laps completed, with new partner Liam Lawson pointing to “teething gremlins”.
As such, Verstappen declared there is “work to do” before the first race, while Technical Director Pierre Wache explained how the new machine “did not respond how we wanted at times”.
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/16x9%20single%20image%20-%202026-02-11T105611.479.webp?ssl=1 "Max Verstappen leads opening morning of first pre-season test in Bahrain")
