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# Video: What caused Red Bull’s Bahrain disaster?
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-what-caused-red-bulls-bahrain-disaster/
- Published: 2022-03-20T22:12:30.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T14:55:03.000Z
- Description: Red Bull’s Bahrain Grand Prix wasn’t turning out as it hoped – and then it suddenly became a complete disaster. We look at the initial theories on what caused its “brutal” last-gasp double retirement
- Author: Matt Beer
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-bottom-center

Red Bull’s start to the 2022 Formula 1 season imploded in the final laps, as both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez suffered what appeared to be the same disastrous failure that turned a decent Bahrain Grand Prix for the team into a nightmare.

Everything we’d seen up to the point Verstappen’s car ran into trouble suggested Red Bull didn’t have anything for Ferrari and Charles Leclerc in a straight fight, but to go from an expected 30 points for second and fourth, to leaving Bahrain with nothing, was a horror show.

Our video looks at the early suggestions for what caused Red Bull’s “brutal” last-gasp failures and why the team’s weekend was already going awry.