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Marko very disappointed: "We need to investigate that now"
- GPblog.com
Red Bull Racing returns home with zero points and that is not what Helmut Marko had hoped for Sunday morning. Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez were able to start the race in Bahrain from P2 and P4 and also seemed to be on their way to a good number of World Championship points. Problems with the engine prevented that.
"The defects of Verstappen and Perez seem to be the same," Marko speaks words of the same vein as team boss Christian Horner in conversation with Austrian television station ORF.
Marko on technical defects
Marko states that Verstappen did indeed have a problem with his power steering, but that was not ultimately the reason for the failure. "In the end, it failed somewhere in the fuel supply in both cars. That's also why Perez spun because he suddenly had no power in the corner."
Where Verstappen initially thought it was the battery, it turned out to be something with the fuel supply. "That's what Max thought, but the problem was that there was just not enough fuel coming in. That's what we have to investigate now [the defective part]. In an hour or so we will have the facts," Marko finally said immediately after the race.