Red Bull declared themselves pleased with how competitive their RB18 was on the penultimate day of testing.
Max Verstappen covered 86 laps and set the third-best time with a lap of 1’34.011. Head of race engineering Guillaume Rocquelin said they had been able to post promising lap times without wringing the maximum from their car.
“It was more of a stop-start day today, mostly by design,” he explained. “We had a good continuous run yesterday, so today was more about exploring and testing different things.
“We spent more time in the garage making changes to the car and also taking more risks. We learned a lot and gathered a lot of information today.
“I’m quite happy with what we found out, we are progressing in different directions and it’s all very positive. We were reasonably competitive at the end without even trying.”
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