Red Bull been very hard with Aston Martin. The current team of energy drinks World champion among pilots and manufacturers thanks to Max Verstappen and the almighty RB18, charged against Fernando Alonso’s team to the point of accusing or insinuating that the AMR23 is a plagiarism of his car.
Everything was after seeing the potential of the car of Fernando Alonso both in the Bahrain tests and in the first Grand Prix of the season, where Fernando Alonso took the podium with a pace that could only be exceeded by the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez.
And it is that the walk of dan fallow It produced great resentment in the Milton Keynes brand. Whoever was a prominent member of blue car aerodynamics went to Aston Martin… with other Red Bull factory workers.
AlphaTauri joins “the party”
Such was the case that AlphaTauri, the ‘subsidiary’ of energy drinks, asserted, like Helmut Marko, that the AMR23 is “the RB18 but painted green.”
The Austrian, in fact, even said that in the podium from Bahrain there were “three Red Bulls, but one with a different engine”, in clear reference to an Aston Martin that has a Mercedes power unit inside.
“These are humorous comments…”
Now on the Youtube channel ‘Formel1.de’ he has nuanced so much that he seems to be that it was all a “joke”.
“It wasn’t an accusation. It’s not meant to be. These are funny comments,” he says.
But he keeps dropping it: “If you look closely, the Aston Martin is the car more like Red Bull”.
We barely had a Formula 1 World Cup race and Red Bull started and the dialectical war with Aston Martin… Who knows what happens if suddenly Fernando Alonso o Start Stroll it gives them to win a test.