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For all the fighting talk from Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Aston Martin over the winter, Red Bull and Max Verstappen still ground them into dust in the first Formula 1 race of 2024.
We expected Red Bull, and Verstappen in particular, to be very strong in Bahrain. And they were. But they were also made to look even better by just how bad their rivals were.
Our latest video explains what went wrong for Red Bull's four main 2023 rivals:
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