Red Bull blatantly delirious

Anger is not a good advisor. In Budapest, still reeling from Verstappen's violent off-track at Silverstone, Red Bull pleaded for an upward revision of the sanction imposed on Hamilton. A poorly crafted request from which the stable did not come out any better.

Published on 03/08/2021 à 15:00

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Why Red Bull Did she request a review?

It was a clearly vengeful Red Bull team and a die-hard Team Principal, Christian Horner, who, the day after the British Grand Prix, embarked on a vast investigation aimed at proving the full responsibility of Lewis Hamilton in the collision which caused the violent exit from the track of Max Verstappen and for which the Englishman only received a 10-second penalty. To achieve its goals, the Milton Keynes team mobilized all its resources. So, Alexander albon, test and reserve driver, was called upon during a life-size “reconstitution” on the Silverstone circuit. At the wheel of a car RB15 of 2019, the young Anglo-Thai strived to reproduce Hamilton's trajectory in the “Copse” corner, Sergio Perez trimant au même moment dans le sim