Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes Ferrari have got off to a strong start in testing for the 2022 Formula 1 season.
The F1-75 has been consistently among the quickest cars on the track since pre-season testing began at the Circuit de Catalunya two weeks ago.
Mercedes caused a stir yesterday by revealing a significant upgrade to their W13 which now features much slimmer sidepods. Horner said it was hard to tell at this stage what different it has made to their performance.
“The jungle drums speak fairly loud on these kind of things in Formula 1 and there’s been rumours of fairly radical interpretation,” he said in response to a question from RaceFans. “Even so it obviously visually is quite a departure from the concepts we and other teams have taken.
“That doesn’t mean to say it’s naturally better or worse – it’s just a different interpretation. Of course there’s compromises that have been made with their layout to accommodate that. So it’s…