Christian Horner: “Need for more performance and reliability”

Daniel Ricciardo certainly took advantage of favorable events to win in the streets of Baku in Azerbaijan last weekend, but the Australian driver of Red Bull Racing however, allowed the Milton Keynes structure to return to victory, which fled the Austro-British clan from Malaysia in 2016.

With an ambitious vision about to car RB13 whose chassis remains its great strength, Ricciardo and all the members of Red Bull Racing hope to continue the momentum of this success, while waiting in particular for better performances from the Power Unit Renault.

“In terms of chassis, we are in a pretty good position, recalls Team Principal Christian Horner. All we have to do is measure the level of support we have compared to our rivals. NOW, we need more performance and reliability, but Renault is doing everything it can. I hope the second half-season will be much stronger than the first. »

Horner also admits that Red Bull Racing is aiming for definite progress after having resolved certain problems seen since the start of the season. “We had problems with the correlation between virtual and real, but they are resolved, continues the British official.

Our measuring devices, which had previously been very reliable, began to show us strange results. The car now operates as we hoped. We have a good development program so things are progressing well. »

Find the report and analysis of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, produced by our special correspondent in Baku, in issue 2120 of AUTOhebdo, available now in digital version and on newsstands.