Nascar Will Red Bull win every race in 2023?

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Will Red Bull win every race in 2023?​

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton said on Sunday that he had never seen a car as fast as the Red Bull but Croft does not believe Horner's team will win all 23 races this term, saying they will be dented by their reduction of wind tunnel time for breaching the cost cap.

He said: "It is a big ask to win every single race. They won't [do it] The other thing, of course, is that as the season goes on they get less wind tunnel time than certainly Aston Martin.

"The fact we've got an Aston Martin-Red Bull battle at the moment is brilliant because Aston Martin get 100 per cent of the time because they finished seventh in the Constructors' Championship last year.

"Red Bull get 70 per cent of the time, but because they were naughty boys and girls and overspent on the cost cap, they only get 63 per cent. That equates to about 120 wind tunnel runs in the course of an eight-week period."

Asked about Red Bull's dominance and if it is bad for the sport, Croft added: "Going into that race, talking to people in the paddock, nobody was saying they're going to fight Max if he comes up behind them because everybody is saying, 'Red Bull aren't our race at the moment'.

"That does worry me a bit because the whole point of cost cap and then the wind tunnel and CFD restrictions was to close the competition so you weren't going to get a team blasting by - as Max did with Lewis like an F2 car trying to defend against an F1 car. There was no fighting."