The Red Bull heavyweights are very upset and concerned about the great results that Aston Martin has achieved in the first race of the season in Bahrain. Only in this way can it be understood that day in and day out they also criticize the design of the British team for its supposed resemblance to the car of the energy drink.
From Red Bull he understands that the Aston Martin is a copy of his car. Legal, but copy your ideas and concepts. For this reason, although they are aware that they cannot file any complaint, they do try to publicly despise the work of the team in which Fernando Alonso is the main protagonist.
First it was Helmut Marko, adviser and number 2 of the team, then Adrian Newey left a message and now it is Christian Horner, team boss, who shoots: "They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery and it is good that the car works so well. According to the result of the race, they are the second strongest team," he said wryly. "It's flattering to see the resemblance of that car to ours, it was great to see all three on the podium," he added.
All this criticism shows that they are not calm with the evolution that this car can have in the coming months. "I've been here long enough to see things change quickly and I still think these cars are still relatively immature and as the teams develop and updates come out things will change," said the champion team boss.
"I think the operating windows of these cars are very narrow and each team in the top three seems to have developed their own theme. One team has adopted our theme and won, so at some point it's going to converge and that can happen anywhere. a season".
In recent days, Helmut Marko had also criticized the fact that there were three identical cars on the podium. "We've seen three Red Bulls on the podium, only the last one with a different engine! (Aston Martin is fitted with a Mercedes power unit)." In addition, he pointed to Dan Fallows, an aerodynamicist in Milton Keynes and now Aston's chief technical officer, as the author of the impersonation. "You have to see what memory some have."
