Max Verstappen took his tenth win in a row in Monza final weekend, which was the fifteenth consecutive victory for Pink Bull.
Extending its clear sweep of 2023 race wins, the Milton Keynes workforce is one other step nearer to successful all 22 races this 12 months, which might be unprecedented on this planet championship.
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McLaren received 15 out of 16 races in 1988 with its all-conquering MP4/4, solely lacking out on a clear sweep when Ayrton Senna tangled with Williams stand-in Jean-Louis Schlesser at Monza.
Till the Italian Grand Prix, Pink Bull has all the time publicly refused to look past the subsequent race. However with simply eight races remaining Marko admitted that, after breaking F1’s document for consecutive race wins, delivering an ideal season is now the subsequent large carrot dangling in entrance of it.
“To start with our objective is to safe the world championships,” the Austrian advised Autosport.
“However as an instance if we win in Singapore, then the possibility is there that we are able to win all of the races. After all, it’s changing into a objective now.
“At first of the season, it was not lifelike to win all of the races and it has by no means occurred earlier than.
“McLaren was stopped right here [in 1988], so the press constructed a narrative that the curse would hit us as effectively, however we did not let it hit us.”
Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing
Photograph by: Erik Junius
Monza was anticipated to be a monitor the place Pink Bull may have tripped up, however Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez noticed off a spirited problem from Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc to ship a 1-2.
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The workforce believes subsequent weekend’s Singapore may very well be its largest impediment to an invincible season as its RB19 does not get on so effectively with bumpy layouts, however Marko nonetheless expects Pink Bull to be the favorite.
“Like each race, now we have had a aggressive automotive in all places so why ought to that not be the case in Singapore?” Marko added.
“However I’ve to say Ferrari and particularly Leclerc is a specialist round there. If they’re sooner in qualifying, then it may change into an issue for us as a result of overtaking in Singapore may be very troublesome.
“However I am nonetheless optimistic that the bundle we’re bringing to Singapore is sweet sufficient to win.”
When requested how Pink Bull could be overwhelmed this 12 months, workforce boss Christian Horner mentioned: “There are such a lot of parts, whether or not it is reliability, whether or not it is luck, whether or not it is technique, whether or not it is a pitstop, whether or not it is tempo. Climate – there are such a lot of parts.
“You have to keep on prime of your sport, and I believe that is what, for me, that is probably the most outstanding achievement this 12 months up to now is that we have not dropped the ball.
Christian Horner, Pink Bull Racing Workforce Principal
Photograph by: Pink Bull Content material Pool
“We have managed to maintain working at an extremely excessive degree, and that is one thing that is not been seen earlier than.”
Horner admitted that the prospect of writing much more historical past this season with a clear sweep has saved his workforce sharp and targeted.
“I believe for the entire workforce, all the things that we’re doing in the mean time, we’re making historical past,” he defined.
“It isn’t typically you get the possibility to do this.”