Max Verstappen’s Thumping Dominance Causes Christian Horner & Co. a Major Headache Which They Will Absolutely Love

While McLaren is having wind tunnel problems that seemingly affect the team’s ability to build a competitive car, guess what problems Red Bull—with a wind tunnel much older than McLaren’s—is having? Red Bull is absolutely dominating this season, having won all seven races so far. The winnings have been split (unevenly so) between their drivers—Max Verstappen with five and Sergio Perez with two. Red Bull has won 17 of the last 20 races, scoring double podiums in 8. With all these wins and podiums come trophies. And while people have heard about suffering from losses, Red Bull is currently suffering from victories. 

The Red Bull duo’s dominance is often compared to the era of McLaren duo, Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. With trophies stacking up race after race, their cabinets in the factory seem to be overflowing. And one of Christian Horner’s beliefs is the cause of this headache.

Christian Horner isn’t a fan of empty cabinets

When drivers are awarded trophies for race wins and podiums, they are stored at their respective team’s factory. Given Red Bull’s class-apart RB19 and Max Verstappen’s dominance (and occasionally Checo’s), the trophies are coming in faster than Red Bull can build cabinets. You would think having built such a dominant racecar that making cabinets would be a piece of cake. But the RB19’s pace has proved faster than their ability to build cabinets.

In an interview, Horner opened up about his superstition, as quoted by GPBlog, saying, “I’m a great believer in never having empty cabinets. So we’re filling them quicker than we can build them at the moment. But I think it’s always been a superstition that I’ve had; win the trophies first and then get a cabinet.” It’s safe to say the team will need many more cabinets at the rate it’s winning trophies this year.

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2022 was the first season since Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull era that it got back to winning ways consistently. Despite Verstappen’s championship victory in 2021, it wasn’t at its best between 2014 and 2021. Now that it’s back on top, Horner also expressed his pride in the team. “It just means that much more when we were there, then we were down, and then we fought back to being there again. Formula 1 is one of the most competitive sports in the world, and to be operating at the level that we are is something that you have to celebrate. You’ve got to celebrate every moment in this sport because you never know how long it’s going to last.”

Max Verstappen looks to give Red Bull its 100th win

Red Bull racked up its 99th win at the Spanish GP last weekend, courtesy of Verstappen’s Grand Slam. Going into Canada, the team will want to make it a hundred wins at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Given its long straights and Red Bull’s straight-line speed, the track most likely will favor the Milton Keynes outfit. 

The only thing they need to be wary of is the Wall of Champions—infamously named so after Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher, and Jacques Villeneuve all crashed into the wall in 1999. But with the Dutchman’s close-to-zero-error driving style, Red Bull doesn’t have too much to worry about. 

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While trying to get his 41st victory, will Red Bull’s most successful driver hand the team its well-deserved century and add to the storage space problem at Milton Keynes post the Canadian GP?