Helmut Marko assures that Ferrari is doing everything wrong

Ferrari is the main rival of Red Bull in this first part of the season. Until the Hungarian Grand Prix, the two teams had been competing for all the victories. While the initial races were in favor of the Scuderia, the Austrian team quickly responded.

Red Bull quickly resolved its reliability issues that resulted in Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez retiring. Now, it is Ferrari that is bearing the consequences. The team managed by Mattia Binotto is also being criticized for its surprising strategies, particularly the latest one at the Hungaroring, where they opted for hard tires for Charles Leclerc and this choice did not work.

This is at least what Helmut Marko, one of the leaders of Red Bull, thinks. They do just about everything wrong. In Budapest, for example, for the first time, they did not put the tires in the right temperature window and also chose the wrong race strategy, he assures our colleagues at Osterreich.

(English translation)

« So I don’t understand why they didn’t use a used medium tire, which would have been better than the hard one. Instead, we now see Mercedes as the big winners with their two drivers on the podium. »

A fun season

The Austrian indicates that he is having a lot of fun this season, unlike last year when everything was nerve-wracking. He finds it unfortunate that Ferrari is making so many mistakes, but he believes that the Italian team will come back strong in the second half of the season.

At the time of the summer break, Red Bull has a 97-point lead over its main competitor and a 127-point lead over Mercedes, which is gaining momentum race after race.