Ferrari Is Most Likely Team To Challenge Red Bull This Year Berger Suggests

Former F1 driver Gerhard Berger said he believes Scuderia Ferrari has the highest chance of closing the gap to Red Bull.

The 2024 season kicks off with the first race in Bahrain in just 30 days. Both teams and F1 fans anticipate this race so much because it will be there that we find out whether any if the teams have been able to close the gap with Red Bull.

Quite a few pundits gave their opinions on which F1 team could be the one to go toe to toe with Red Bull. In general, the most mentioned teams were Ferrari, McLaren, and Mercedes.

While Jenson Button suggested Mercedes could be the one, former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher asserted Lando Norris in McLaren has great potential.

Then there is the former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan, who stated Charles Leclerc in Ferrari is the only one who could stand up to Max Verstappen and Red Bull.

Former F1 driver Gerhard Berger leans more towards what Jordan said. He gave his two cents on the topic in an interview with Auto Motor und Sport:

Ferrari started the 2023 season as maybe the fourth fastest team and then worked their way up. In the second half of the season, the Prancing Horse was the second-best team.

Ferrari was the only team besides Red Bull to win a Grand Prix last year after Carlos Sainz won the Singapore Grand Prix.

Moreover, the Italian team also almost beat Red Bull once more during the season's penultimate race – the Las Vegas Grand Prix. On the other hand, Berger pointed out other teams cannot be underestimated as he added: