Ex-System 1 driver believes Pink Bull nonetheless has a “very fast automobile” that may take the combat to championship leaders regardless of the early deficit.
The Austrian squad is third within the standings, 148 factors behind the leaders with solely two victories in comparison with McLaren’s 5.
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In lots of grands prix Pink Bull has merely struggled to match McLaren’s tempo as, in Bahrain for instance, aboard the main RB21 was 34.3 seconds off winner .
However Kvyat continues to be assured that Pink Bull can combat for the championship, believing “they aren’t removed from McLaren after they put the automobile within the working window”. The primary challenge has merely been that the automobile is just too “peaky”.
“To be in that candy spot, it’s extremely slender,” Kvyat added, whereas chatting with the F1 Nation podcast after the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.
“You all the time attempt to maximise the automobile’s potential whereas constructing it after which let engineers and drivers cope with it to do a superb job with set-up and driving.
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“However when you slide barely away from this window, as an example, then the results are additionally enormous and also you lose quite a lot of lap time.”
Kvyat thinks that Pink Bull “not having as a lot to lose” may really increase it within the 2025 constructors’ championship with McLaren not likely accustomed to such dominance.
“The pole distinction [in Imola] was solely half a tenth and in addition within the race the place the deg is low, I really feel like Pink Bull can positively be there with McLaren and particularly if McLaren is behind them,” mentioned Kvyat.
“It isn’t going to be straightforward and naturally additionally having not a lot to lose can combat a bit more durable with the elbows out.”
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