George Russell suspects Red Bull might be deliberately hiding their true race pace to avoid FIA intervention.
Red Bull are clearly the quickest team on the grid in these early weeks of the 2023 Formula 1 season. The Milton Keynes-based outfit have won all three races so far and may well have finished first and second in them all, had it not been for Sergio Perez's qualifying accident in Australia.
Despite clearly displaying superior race pace again in Melbourne, race winner Max Verstappen only ever managed a nine-second gap over his nearest on-track rival during the longest stint of what was an incident-filled race.
