Red Bull invents his own “narrative” about his possibilities

The director of the McLaren team, Andrea Stella, believes that his rivals, Red Bull, are inventing a “narrative” that suggests that they are achieving miracles just for competing for poles and victories this season.

Max Verstappen won his third pole position of 2025 for the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday and will try to turn it into a second victory of the campaign to stay in the fight for a fifth title of consecutive pilots.

The Dutch has been able to keep McLaren’s duo at bay formed by Lando Norris and Oscar Piestri so far, despite the general recognition that the Woking team has the fastest car of the grill.

But for Stella, the suggestion that Red Bull is staying far behind in the battle for the head is something he is delighted to play.

“In Red Bull they are very good doing fast cars, they are very exceptionally good I would say driving fast cars and are extremely good also creating the narrative in their favor,” he said.

“All possible opportunities exploit to stay in the competition and some of these opportunities are sometimes creating the narrative such as: ‘Oh, we are doing miracles here, others should win all training sessions, classification and career’”.

“But this is the narrative created by some of our competitors that we read from time to time and then change the page, and we focus on ourselves and when we focus on ourselves, we look at the numbers, we look at the facts, we look at what we should be improving and there is much we should be improving.”

“So for me when I look at the facts I also look at what Lando and Oscar deliver and deliver quite consistently, so well, well done to Red Bull even in terms of the way they manage their non -technical opportunities.”

Norris will be next to Verstappen in the first row in Miami and, asked about Motorsport.com In the press conference after the classification about whether his friend and rival was taking out more from Red Bull than him and Piastri in the superior McLaren, he replied: “It is impossible to know what car he has compared to us. The advantage we have is two fast pilots and they do not.”

“We have a car that is capable of allowing pilots to drive faster, but it is impossible to know, impossible to really know the difference between the two cars.”