Red Bull made an impressive start to their 2022 campaign in the qualifying of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Austrian team will start the race in P2 and P4 for Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, respectively.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner mentioned that he was happy that the team started so strongly after fighting for the title in 2021. The team only missed out on pole by a 10th of a second as Max finished behind Charles.

But they can be happy that they have 2 cars in the top 4 to challenge Ferrari in the race. Horner was more than pleased with the performance that both of his drivers showed in the qualifying session in Bahrain.

Red Bull team boss impressed with his team after an intense 2021 season

As reported by Motorsport-Turkey, Red Bull was in an intense and close battle with Mercedes throughout the 2021 season. There were many fears that the team might have pushed a bit too hard in the previous season and will fall behind in 2022.

“After such a major rule change, we can be happy to be able to start from the first line. This is absolutely fantastic. Everyone has had a clean slate with the arrival of the new rules. Yet there are only 0.3 seconds between fourth place Checo and first place,” said Christian.

“To me, that’s almost nothing after such a big rule change and such a big difference between cars. After such a busy season, we are very happy to be in the first line and to be in the second line with Checo,” said Horner. [Translated By Google]

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But it is impressive, to say the least, that even after fighting all the way last season, they look like the fastest team this season. It would be a close battle between them and Ferrari, at least at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Horner would hope that both his drivers get better starts than the Ferrari duo and take home the first 1-2 of the season. Let’s see who comes out on top between Verstappen and Leclerc in the first race.

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