F1 | Brawn: “Haas, Renault or McLaren on the podium? It seems impossible to me, the gap from the top teams is too great"

The trend that accompanied the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship was also repeated in the first three events of the new season: Mercedes, Ferrari e Red Bull I'm from another planet. Both in the race and, above all, in qualifying, the top teams imposed a notable gap between themselves and the competition, which only a few fortuitous episodes managed to partially reduce. “We saw it in Sakhir and Shanghai: the gap between the top teams and the other teams is too great" - He admitted Ross Brawn, sports manager of Formula 1. “On the sixteenth lap of the Chinese Grand Prix, Magnussen was already 20 seconds behind Ricciardo who was ahead of him! The intervention of the Safety Car shuffled the cards, but it wasn't enough to allow a mid-table team to fight for a place on the podium."

In less than two weeks, Formula 1 will fly to Azerbaijan, where it was last year Lance stroll he achieved a sensational 3rd place, taking advantage of a chaotic race to say the least. According to Brawn, it will be unthinkable to relive a similar situation: “That was the only podium of 2017 for a team that wasn't in the top 3. Seeing a Haas, a Renault or a McLaren finish in the top three, currently, It seems impossible to me".