Red Bull is heading into the 2023 F1 championship season as the clear favorite. The Milton Keynes-based outfit finished 2022 with the most dominant display ever in the sport’s history. However, despite the dominant display in 2022, Ferrari posed a constant threat. A threat that the Red Bull hierarchy is preparing to face again in 2023.

The team back in Maranello is extremely confident with their 2023 challenger. Ferrari is confident they have plugged the unreliability hole that plagued the team during most of the previous season. Apart from the unreliability, the team also replaced their team principal Mattia Binotto with Frederic Vasseur.

All these changes have not gone unnoticed and Red Bull’s top management is sure “Ferrari will not rest” until they get their results. Results that have eluded the prancing horse since 2008.

However, while speaking with Motorsport-Total, Red Bull’s chief engineer Adrain Newey revealed how a positive working environment is equally important. He said, “We trust that we can go on in our respective jobs and that the other is doing their job. A kind of informal way of working, trust, and friendship are at the core of what works so well.” (Translated Via Google)

Red Bull’s team principal Christain Horner echoed Newey’s comments. “I think it’s a relationship based on trust, friendship and mutual respect for our work,” said Horner.

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Vasseur is at the helm with an exciting 2023 challenger. However, will that be enough to take the challenge to Red Bull in 2023? Most would assume so. Although there will be one more topic that the new team boss will have to address in 2023.

Ferrari hierarchy debate sparks again as the new season approaches

Ferrari will have to make up their mind, like Red Bull, which driver will lead them to the championship glory. Charles Leclerc or Carlos Sainz? One of the two will have to take one for the team as the other pushes to claim the driver’s championship.

However, a former Ferrari boss suggested a solution to this problem in an interview with Corriere dello Sportto. “There is no need to establish hierarchies at the start, or at least I hope there aren’t; then halfway through the championship, with the positions stabilized, it’s time to put the second in support of whoever is ahead in the standings,” said Cesare Fiorio. (Translated Via Google)

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We are not sure how the 2023 season will pan out. However, it will be interesting to see how Vasseur tackles this hierarchy problem while dealing with Red Bull.