Max Verstappen admitted Red Bull are in for a tough fight in the second half of the season after being overtaken by their improving Formula 1 rivals. (More Motorsport News)
Red Bull now find themselves under pressure after failing to win any of the last four races, with Max Verstappen only managing one podium at Si🧔lverstone during th♓at run and Sergio Perez struggling for form
Max Verstappen admitted Red Bull are in for a tough fight in the second half of the season after being overtaken by their improving Formula 1 rivals. (More Motorsport News)
The Dutchman started the season strongly, winning seven of the first 10 races on the calendar, while he and Sergio Perez secured three one-ওtwos in the first four Grands Prix.
However, Red Bull now find themselves under pressure after failing to win any of the last four races, with Verstappen only💧 managing one podium at Silverstone during that run and Perez struggling for form.
Me🤡rcedes won three of those four, with Lewis Hamilton winn🦄ing two and George Russell the other, while McLaren's Oscar Piastri earned his maiden victory in Hungary.
The gap at the top of the constructors' championship is now down to 42 points, thanks to McLaren's 10-race run of con🐽secutive podium finishes.
And now, Verstappen has suggested the Austrian-based team no longer have&n𝓰bsp;the fastest car.
"I think they are ahead of us," Verꦆstappen told Sky Sports F1. "It✅ depends. Sometimes McLaren, sometimes Mercedes.
"I think we were faster than Ferrari but coming from P11 [at the Belgian G♍rand Prix], we didn't have enough time to pass them. We know𓄧 that we have work to do.
"We know that we want to do better, we are, of cou🦄rse, not satisfied with this, bꦏut everyone is doing a great job, and you have to take your hat off for that as well."
Verstappen still holds a 78-ඣpoint lead over McLaren's Lando Norris in the drivers' championship, the equivalent of three race wins, with the season resuming in the Netherlands aဣt the end of August.