The Red Bull RB19 with which Max Verstappen dominated the F1 season did not receive many major updates throughout the season. Nevertheless, Red Bull dominated the entire season in an almost unprecedented way and team boss Christian Horner wanted to emphasize this by figuratively throwing some salt in the wound among the competition.
Red Bull dominated the entire F1 season in an almost unprecedented manner and many fans, as well as competing teams, fear that Red Bull will continue to dominate next year. The fact that Red Bull was assured of both world titles so early ensured that they were able to focus very early on the development of the car for 2024. Furthermore, this season’s car doesn’t seem to have received many major updates.
“The biggest change was our livery!” joked Christian Horner when asked what the biggest challenge was throughout the season, although Horner subsequently admitted that different teams posed challenges throughout the season.
“At different times during the season we had different opponents who made things difficult for us. Aston Martin started the season very strongly.”
“When you look at Monaco, everything came down to qualifying, that one lap during qualifying determined the race.”
“And more recently there was McLaren which became a challenge in recent races and of course we also had Ferrari and Mercedes who were also there at times.”
“It has therefore been very different during the season who our opponent was. I think we performed particularly well ourselves and achieved a very high level of consistency on different types of circuits and in different conditions.”
Ultimately, Ferrari was the only team besides Red Bull to win a race this season. Carlos Sainz won the Singapore GP.