Pierre Wache: 'We are not quite there yet'

Published on 13 March 2026 by Johan Peeters

Pierre Waché, Technical Director of Oracle Red Bull Racing, reflects on after Friday’s Sprint qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix: “Our set up for sprint qualifying didn’t play out as we would have wanted it to, so we need to analyse our performance and see how we can improve for the Sprint race and qualifying. We are understanding more and improving week by week.”

“We’ve already made positive steps to improve energy management and have made improvements on the chassis side based on what we learned from Australia. We are making progress, but we are not quite there yet. Tomorrow’s sessions will bring major learnings to help us get closer to where we would like to be.”