Red Bull never believed it wouldn’t be fighting near the front of the grid in Australia, despite a “horrible” pre-season, according to team principal Christian Horner.

Early predictions, although rarely accurate, had Red Bull fighting in the lower midfield due to power unit, cooling and reliability troubles during all three pre-season tests.

Horner though says it was never the case that they’d be slow, there was just a question mark over making it to the end of the race.

“We’ve never believed that we won’t be [near the front] and we will keep fighting as hard as we can to fight ourselves back into competitiveness,” said the Briton.

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