Red Bull victim of its audacity?

Ron Dennis, former team principal of McLaren and today a minority shareholder in the Woking stable, thinks that Sebastian Vettel ran out of fuel during the Bahrain Grand Prix. While in the lead, the German driver had suffered a sudden loss of power, first linked to the failure of an exhaust, before Red Bull detects a faulty spark plug. Ron Dennis doesn't believe it.

« Lap times dropped so quickly that it appeared the electronic control unit had gone into a fuel-saving program “, he attests to ESPN. “ The problem with the Red Bull could lie in its design. Maybe the tank is too small. » The hypothesis is credible, as Adrian Newey has often opted for radical solutions on his single-seaters.

But Ron Dennis also thinks that “ fuel consumption could be higher than expected ". However, it appears that the engine Renault is one of the least greedy on the board, if not the most economical of all. Red Bull, to gain speed at the start, could have reduced the RB6 by a few liters of fuel, counting on the low consumption of the Renault engine, with the aim of gaining a few tenths. The Milton Keynes team may have to be more careful in Melbourne.