Red Bull Racing after pre-season testing: 'Achieved a good baseline'

Published on 12 March 2022 by Niels Hendrix

Oracle Red Bull Racing completed a final day of pre-season testing before the start of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship, with Sergio Perez and World Champion Max Verstappen posting a combined total of 96 laps on another solid day of running. The tally took the drivers’ Sakhir test total to 320 laps, leaving Red Bull well prepared for next weekend’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

Reflecting on the day’s running and the final test as a whole, Head of Race Engineering Guillaume Rocquelin said: “The lap times are irrelevant. Today was more about putting together the lessons we have learned over the past few days. It was about going through the process of running different compounds, so that the drivers are happy and that we have a platform to work from for next week. There were some slight differences in the tyre allocation between Max and Checo, but generally the idea was the same, to establish a good baseline with which we can start the race weekend and I think we achieved that.”