Motorsport Advisor Dr. Helmut Marko insists that reigning world champion Max Verstappen could have been in contention for victory at the Belgian Grand Prix if he had started from the front of the field. Red Bull enjoyed a strong start to its 2024 F1 title defence, winning four of the opening five rounds. It looked like that the Milton Keynes-based outfit would dominate the third year of the current era of ground-effect cars until McLaren and Ferrari achieved a sudden lift in performance. The Scuderia won in Australia and then in Monaco while the British squad took the victory in Miami. Following a successful upgrade in Monaco, Mercedes also started to claw it way back to the sharp end of...
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