something it can do at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, while McLaren struggled, Red Bull made significant strides, with Verstappen clinching victory from pole position in Baku. It represented back-to-back wins for the Dutchman, who is now 69 points adrift of Piastri with seven rounds remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bull has made considerable progress since introducing a new floor to the RB21 in Monza, where Verstappen again triumphed from pole position.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For many, the Singapore GP is being viewed as the deciding factor over whether Verstappen is in the fight for a fifth consecutive drivers’ championship, as it has been a bogey venue for Red Bull in recent seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Norris dominated in Singapore last year due to the track being littered with medium-speed corners. This has typically been a weakness for Red Bull, meaning a strong performance would signify that Verstappen can compete for victory in all the remaining races.<\/p>\n
Steiner remains unsure if Verstappen is genuinely in the title fight, although he is certain McLaren must now change its ‘rules’ system and prioritise one driver.<\/p>\n
“I would be more willing to say he has got a chance, not saying that he’s going to win it, but he has got a chance at the moment,” said Steiner on the Red Flags podcast.<\/p>\n
“Because even if Max wins, the other two, under normal circumstances, have the second fastest car. I don’t think Ferrari can get there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The Mercedes, it’s just like in some races, they are very good, but there are very few of them, and maybe there is one. So I think even if Max has got the best car, he will not win them all anyway, in my opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But it could open up, and it gets competitive, and that McLaren has to change the papaya rules and support one driver [to win the title]. They maybe should have done that a little bit earlier.<\/p>\n
“But obviously they want to be fair, even wanting to lose a world championship by being fair, I wouldn’t do that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has advised McLaren to “change” its ‘papaya rules’ and prioritise one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-179521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}