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# Video: Russell’s surreal claim about Red Bull’s top speed edge
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/uncategorized/video-russells-surreal-claim-about-red-bulls-top-speed-edge/
- Published: 2023-05-06T08:14:36.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-15T17:12:57.000Z
- Description: Would a wing-less Mercedes still get beaten by Red Bull on the straight? That’s what George Russell suggests
- Author: Valentin Khorounzhiy
- Tags: Uncategorized, #video, #image-center-center

There are always a multitude of reasons to explain why the fastest car in Formula 1 – which this year is very clearly the Red Bull RB19 – is so good.

But one area of Red Bull’s dominance in 2023 has been particularly striking and easy to see even to an untrained eye.

That would be the straightline speed – and it’s prompted Mercedes driver George Russell to make an extreme claim about the RB19 relative to the Mercedes W14\. That extreme claim, he emphasised, was not a joke.

But is his assertion merited? And what can Mercedes actually do to close the gap?