Luxuries of 2023, foregone at Red Bull as they now have to actually 'compete'

The circumstances may have changed indeed, but not the approach, even if strategic variations are minimal as recent history has shown, says the Red Bull man in conversation with media including GPblog.

"Overtaking's never been straightforward, even with DRS. What has changed, if you take '23 for example, is we don't have a lap time advantage anymore so we don't have that luxury of sort of pulling away and controlling our own race stopping when we want and avoiding everybody," said Monaghan comparing Red Bull's position now to their dominant 2023 season where they won all races save one.

Whilst the approach to each race weekend may not differed, the outlook certainly has. "If we can take the pole and enjoy the run to the first corner and hopefully get out and be away and gone, we'll take it. We won't hand it away."