Can the team that finished second in the constructors’ classification receive a higher rating – at the end of the season – than the team that won the title for the eighth consecutive year? It can, if it is a unique and incredible season like the one we experienced in 2021. Red Bull deserves a nice 9+ and the nickname of ‘indomitable’ for how she managed to interrupt the string of world victories won by the Mercedes drivers, which had lasted since 2014. Obviously the credit must be shared with Max Verstappen, author of a season that came close to perfection. The leap forward shown by the team in its complexity, from the level of competitiveness of the car, to the management of the races, to the strategies and up to ‘political presence’ – always fundamental since the dawn of F1 – it is however undeniable.
Milton Keynes’s team probably put on the track there best car of the lot in the first part of the season, as evidenced by the brace he missed in Baku and canceled only by the Verstappen puncture, the double podium in France and the splendid double of the # 33 in the two Austrian races, which seemed to have directed the season in the direction of the bulls even at the constructors’ title level. Then the very unfortunate episodes of Silverstone (Hamilton-Verstappen accident) and above all Budapest (carom with two Red Bulls overwhelmed innocently at the first corner) and the comeback of Mercedes made the team title slip from the hands of Horner and associates.
The extraordinary points average achieved by the team – 26.61 points per race – however, it provides the measure of the growth achieved in just 12 months by the men of the Austrian team. Only twice in its history did Red Bull have achieved a better average points: in 2011 and 2013. Even the team based in Milton Keynes did better this year than in the other two winning campaigns of 2010 and 2012. The extraordinary work played by Sergio Perez especially in the last GP of the season, finally, it also testifies to the goodness of the choice of the new second driver, who – while closing the championship in fourth place – played a role in helpingand Max Verstappen to graduate champion.
Red Bull, 585.50 points. 2nd place. Average: 26.61 points. In 2020: 2nd place
Rating: 9+ | Indomitable
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