Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed Red Bull will introduce new parts next weekend in Imola.<\/p>\n
The Milton Keynes-based squad has endured a tough start to the season with rivals McLaren taking five victories in the opening six rounds.<\/p>\n
It currently sits third in the constructors’ championship, 141 points down on leaders McLaren who also hold the top two positions in the drivers’ standings.<\/p>\n
Last time out in Miami, Verstappen crossed the line in fourth place, almost 40 seconds down on race-winner Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n
Assessing the race, Marko told oe24: \u201cWe were simply not fast enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax is fully there over one lap, so he compensates a lot with his skills. That’s what I call the Max factor. But in the race, unfortunately, we saw the incredible speed of McLaren.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c40 seconds behind is a lot. It would have been even more if Max had not driven in front of the McLarens in the opening phase and had not slowed them down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marko suggested Red Bull is not even the second-fastest team on the grid as it stands.<\/p>\n
“As George Russell’s third-place finish shows, Mercedes is also stronger,\u201d\u00a0Marko added. \u201cSo we have to think of something and pull out all the stops to find more performance.”<\/p>\n
With Imola hosting round seven of the season, Marko hopes Red Bull can use its planned upgrades as a springboard to challenge McLaren.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will have new parts,\u201d Marko added. \u201cThe question is whether it will bring us closer to McLaren. They have an incredibly strong car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMax’s pole position [in Miami] honestly only came about after McLaren and Kimi Antonelli made mistakes in the last laps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed Red Bull will introduce new parts next weekend in Imola. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-81536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114465948624085159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}