

This, combined with the burning desire to return to the glory days of the early 2010s, has set Red Bull up for success.
#Max verstappen 2021 driver
The introduction of Mexican driver Sergio Perez as Verstappen’s teammate lends hope that the Red Bull team will manage to have a competitive second car, filling the hole that Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo had left in the team since his unexpected departure in 2018. The exit of Honda as an engine supplier in 2022 has prompted the Japanese manufacturer to give it their all in this year’s engine for Red Bull.
#Max verstappen 2021 drivers
Identified by many as one of, if not the best drivers on the present grid, the mechanical gap created by the dominance of the Mercedes cars versus the reliability and stability issues experienced by Red Bull has kept him away from what would be a very well deserved WDC, until now. Although Verstappen is only 23, he has built an impressive résumé having debuted at 17 with Red Bull’s feeder team Scuderia Toro Rosso (now named Scuderia Alpha Tauri). In the shadow of Mercedes’ dominance thus far, however, has risen Dutch driver Max Verstappen, both the poster-boy and leading figure of the Austrian racing team.

(Hamilton’s seventh win was with the German racing outfit, having won the WDC with Mercedes 6 out of the previous 7 years, long after his initial successful championship bid with McLaren in 2008). Paired with the Formula 1 legend Lewis Hamilton, who has won an unprecedented seven World Drivers Championships (WDCs) in the sport and is now seeking his eighth, the driver-team combination has remained as both the favorites and defending champions of the greater half of the last decade. With the opening of the 2021 Formula 1 racing season, the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team is coming off of seven consecutive constructors titles in the sport, ranging from their first in 2014 when they nailed regulation changes that shook up the previous domination by the Red Bull team and Sebastian Vettel, to their most recent in 2020 with the mechanically dominant Mercedes-AMG F1 W11 EQ Performance. The RB16B, based on last year’s RB16, is Red Bull’s challenger for the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship.
