The Red Bull is "the fastest car that has ever been in Formula 1", according to Lewis Hamilton. And maybe he's right

Red Bull has started the 2023 season in an unbeatable way. With two doubles in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia , Max Verstappen leads the world championship with just one point ahead of Sergio Pérez, which he achieved with the fastest Saudi lap. Right now it seems that it is impossible for anyone to beat Red Bull.

Some have even thrown in the towel. After two fifth places in the first two races, Lewis Hamilton has already assumed that this year he is not going to be world champion either. And after the race in Saudi Arabia he left a very forceful sentence: "Red Bull is the fastest car that has ever been in Formula 1".

The Red Bulls were a second and a half quicker when they pushed

Hamilton knows that he himself had that advantage for years thanks to the Mercedes of the hybrid era, but qualifies that " when we were fast, we were not so fast . The Red Bull is the fastest car I have seen, at least compared to the competition." ". Hamilton has it quite clear.

The fact is that the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix served to check how much Red Bull was saving, and the answer is devastating. Verstappen had to come back from fifteenth position and only took half a race to get second, although it is true that he had the help of a safety car.

When Verstappen was finally second, some five seconds behind Pérez, both began to shoot for victory. It became clear that the Red Bulls were pulling everything they had, and the result was that they were going one and a half seconds faster per lap than Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin. demoralizing.

Hamilton suffered it in his own flesh when Verstappen, who had been coming from behind, caught up with him: "I don't know how or why, but he passed me with a lot of speed. I didn't even bother to cover him because the speed difference was enormous," he said. Hamilton on the maneuver with Verstappen.

At the moment Sergio Pérez seems to be enduring the pull of Verstappen , partly helped by the failure of the champion in the classification. But if, as expected, Verstappen gets in the way with Pérez, we may be facing a Formula 1 World Cup that runs out of emotion too soon.

What is clear is that in a world championship of 23 Grand Prix , for Formula 1 it is unassumable that all the excitement for who is going to be champion ends after the first month of competition. There are things to fix.