Red Bull Racing, on the other hand, has the fastest driver, claims Andrew Benson, who believes that Max Verstappen is 2-3 tenths faster than everyone else.
It's true that the shine of RB's dominance is fading, with Verstappen losing qualifying times and not having the advantage in races that we used to. This year, McLaren and Scuderia Ferrari have already caught up with them, and it doesn't seem like this was the only time...
The industry is also well aware that Red Bull is running a completely different season than it did at this time last year, and Benson said that he and several other writers believe that Verstappen has a 2-3 tenths advantage over the others.
"Is the Red Bull car still the best? I'm not so sure about that anymore. If you go around the paddock and talk to people, team managers, it turns out that the success depends much more on Max Verstappen than on his race car. Several very high-ranking insiders have already confirmed this theory, so I dare say that several are on the same level as Red Bull Racing, when it comes to the technical side," said Benson, quite interestingly.
