For the Austrian GP, Red Bull Racing team brought an update, although it seemed not to have much influence on the performance. How does Christian Horner view this setback and what does it mean for Silverstone and the rest of the season?
“It’s a very modest upgrade this one,” Christian Horner told GPblog among others at the Red Bull Ring. Max Verstappen could only driver until Turn 3 on Lap 1, after he got hit by Andrea Kimi Antonelli, therefore, he could not put many miles into seeing how the floor would have performed for him over a race distance.

Horner expects different competitive order at Silverstone

According to the Red Bull Racing team principal, a possible great result is already up for grabs at the upcoming British Grand Prix. “Let’s see it Silverstone. It’s a different type of circuit, it’ll probably be a different temperature although there’s a heatwave in the UK at the moment.”

“It’s fast corners, it’s shorter corners, it’s a completely different challenge to this circuit so I think it will move again in terms of the competitive order.”

Christian Horner in Austria

Christian Horner in Austria

Since the beginning of the season, the Red Bull doesn’t seem to have really made progress with the RB21, and Verstappen’s gap further expanded with his DNF to 61 points. Horner offered an explanation for this. “I think the thing is there are no silver bullets in this business and I think that progress takes time.”

“And you have to understand the issues and then address them. And of course I think partly this year has exposed some of the issues we have with some of our tools.”

“And of course, we’re working hard to understand that because we don’t want to be in this situation moving forward and there’s one team that’s a standout, but the rest of them, it keeps moving from weekend to weekend of who the best of the rest is,” Horner concluded in Spielberg.