Mercedes watchful for Red Bull: "We'll get overrun very, very quickly"

Despite the fact that Mercedes is currently the fastest in the field, the team regularly looks back. According to James Allison, not everything is taken for granted by the team. He says they are very much looking out for Red Bull Racing, which according to him looks very strong.

Mercedes expects a fight

Allison informs immediately that, since Mercedes has won the first two Grands Prix of the season at the Red Bull Ring they have built with great distance the best car. "I think probably is an assumption that this is just an easy cakewalk and I can just say it doesn’t feel like that sitting our shoes", said Allison at the press conference in Hungary at the request of Motorsport.com.

Always keep eyes open

"we’re now at a second track where we ran on greasy cold asphalt against Red Bull who were clearly not running their engine at the same level of power that we had chosen for that session and the gap looks bigger than it truly is. We’re expecting this year to be a fight. We’re expecting to have to develop strongly because if we blink we’ll be swallowed up", said Allison.

"if we don’t pay enough attention, either to how we approach each race weekend or how we develop the car through the year, we’ll get overrun very, very quickly", concludes the Brit.