Red Bull can’t win the World Constructors’ Championship this season with no effort. The Austrian team stands in a much more vulnerable position right now than in the previous seasons. The 2024 edition of F1 has already seen 6 different racers take the top spot at the 12 Grands Prix that have happened till now. So, the sport is no longer a monopoly for Red Bull. Rather, there are about four teams that are vying for the Constructors’ trophy, and Helmut Marko is well aware of it. As the Chief Advisor of Red Bull, Marko’s primary job is to identify threats to his team.

The Austrian believes the biggest problem for RBR is the upsurge of its rival squads like McLaren, Mercedes, and Ferrari. At the start of this year, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz won a couple of Grands Prix to prove their worth against Christian Horner’s army. Then, the McLaren racers wowed the onlookers when Lando Norris clinched his first-ever F1 race win in Miami amidst back-to-back podium finishes. And lastly, Mercedes has recently shown its true colors as George Russell won the Austrian GP and Lewis Hamilton won in Great Britain.

Thus, Red Bull has failed to contain the powers of its rival teams. Speaking on the fight amongst the top 4 in the World Championship right now, Helmut Marko told Krone, “ [McLaren] has the fastest package, but [it] didn’t make it over the finish line because of driving and strategy errors.” The octagenarian also admitted, “Mercedes showed more than just a flicker in the last two races.” Lastly, Marko brought up Ferrari’s current form. He discussed the team’s celebrations after Charles Leclerc’s Monaco GP win.

The 81-year-old said, “Ferrari is getting stronger again, even though people joked after Monaco that they jumped into the harbor after their victory but never resurfaced. So we have four teams on equal terms.” with this, Helmut Marko took the fans back to the evening in Monte Carlo following Leclerc’s resounding victory at the Circuit de Monaco. The Scuderia boss Frederic Vasseur wanted to commemorate the 26-year-old’s home race win with a dip in the French Riviera. But since then, none of the Ferrari racers got another win, prompting critics to say that the team never surfaced after its leader dove into the waters in Monaco.

So what did Vasseur say about the “perfect” Ferrari outing at the principality where his celebratory dunk went viral?

Frederic Vasseur remembers the perfect Monaco weekend for the ‘cursed’ Leclerc

Charles Leclerc might be Monaco’s motorsports prince but he had never won an F1 race there before 2024. Despite having debuted with Ferrari in 2019, each year he faced some difficulties that led to him losing out on a win at his home race. This made several fans claim that Charles is perhaps ‘cursed‘. But the Monegasque managed to break his losing spell in the principality with a victory this season. Through the weekend in Monaco, the Ferrari racer looked to be in top form as he grabbed the pole position and successfully converted it to a Grand Prix win.

Leclerc’s clinical victory over all his rivals in Monaco sent his boss Frederic Vasseur into a celebratory mood. The Frenchman reviewed that time at the Circuit de Monaco by saying, “It was the perfect weekend and one to remember for Charles, having had a couple of tough races in the past here in Monaco. He was flying from lap 1 in FP1 and he did the perfect job.” However, Charles Leclerc has failed to win a single race ever since then.

Now, only two Grands Prix are left on the roster before the summer season begins in F1. So, at this moment, Leclerc needs a win at any one of the two races in Hungary and in Belgium. If he manages to pull off a stunt like the one he did at Spa-Francorchamps in 2019, he will win his fans’ hearts once again. Do you believe the Monegasque can surpass his opponents to score a win soon? Mention your predictions below.