Horner after first 2021 pole position: 'Fantastic to start the season this way'

Published on 27 March 2021 by Niels Hendrix

Christian Horner, team principal of Red Bull Racing, is happy with the pole position that Max Verstappen took for the Grand Prix of Bahrain, the season opener of 2021. He says: “It’s fantastic to start the season this way, our first pole at the opening round since 2013 and Honda’s first since Senna in 1991. You never really know where you are at the first race of the year when the fuel comes out and the engine modes are turned up. It was nip and tuck in Q2 and it looked like Mercedes had a small advantage on the medium tyre but then Max came back on the softs.“

“The whole team worked tremendously hard over the winter to put us in this position and Honda and ExxonMobil have also done a stellar job for us. Tomorrow is going to be very tight and Mercedes have turned it up, everyone wrote them off two weeks ago and they’re right up there as we expected. It will be a massive challenge for us to beat them but we’re starting from the best possible place.”

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