Red Bull seemed to take their excellent preseason form to the first race weekend of the year, with Max Verstappen taking the fourth pole of his career from Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton at the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix.
Verstappen qualified at 0.414s of Hamilton’s pace at the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2020, just a few months ago. But the work of Red Bull and Honda over the winter saw this deficit almost completely reversed, with an impressive final lap in the Verstappen Q3 giving him the Mercedes driver’s pole for 0.388s.
Get on board with the two cars in the video above – and find out where the Dutch driver and his Red Bull RB16B made the difference.
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