In Saudi Arabia Max Verstappen will have the first opportunity of his career to win the world title. Protagonist of a practically perfect season, which saw him reach the finish line in first or second position in all the races in which he was not the victim of an accident, the Dutch home Red Bull will have to try to manage a margin in the next two races eight points clear of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. This championship, however, has the particularity of arriving before the introduction of a significant distortion of the technical regulation.
All the teams therefore had to work in parallel on two projects, one for the current season and one for 2022, in which we will see very different single-seaters take to the track from the current ones. The stables in the center of the group, first of all the Ferrari, they have chosen to bet everything on next year. Carlos Sainz has revealed that he has tested the car of the season in the simulator for the first time, which will come already last January, even before the start of the current World Championship. For the Red Bull instead, engaged in the fight for the title until the end of this championship, the timing was inevitably extended.
During an interview with the site SquareMile.com, Verstappen himself has revealed that he has not yet had the opportunity to test a ‘prototype’ of the car he will be driving next year. However, this situation does not seem to worry him particularly. “I haven’t driven the new car yet. There are still many things that will change now, in the coming months, before the car is built, so I will wait until it is in the final stages of development “ clarified the Dutch. The only thing that really seems to matter to the Hasslet native is thereliability in view of the first pre-season tests next year: “You will have to get used to how to drive the car, because there will be less grip. That will be important, so the winter tests will be crucial – concluded Verstappen – there is a need to do many km there“.
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