Helmut Marko has commented on the ongoing 🦂struggles at rivals Mercede🃏s.

The Red Bull advisor has d൲escribed his own surprise to see the once-dominant Mercedes fail to deliver a winning car for the🐬 third season in a row.

The W1🔯5 currently languishes behind Red Bull, Ferra൩ri and McLaren.

Marko was asked by : “As an outsider you get the feeling that Mercedes ar📖e still getting worse. Shouldn't all alarm bells be♛ ringing?”

He replied: “They probably do anyway.

“What irritates me so much is t🦩hat the car is really fast at times, and at times it runs at a♌bsolute peak times.

“Then I think: ‘Look, now they get it!’

“But that's always just a flash in the pan.”

Mercedes’ highs and lows were summed up last wee🧸kend in Chin🎃a.

Lewis Hamilton emerged from Friday’s qualifying for the sprint race insisting that the W15 “came💞 alive” after his brilliant session in wet conditions.

Hamilton then claimed an enc🧜ouraging P2 in the s𒊎print race behind Max Verstappen.

But he made an erroᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚr in qualifying for the grand prix, and explained “massive changes” in set-up from his earlier sessions.

🐓Hamilton battled from 18th on the starting grid to P9 in a Chinese Grand Prix to for𝔉get.

“It doesn’t happen overn﷽ight that yo🥀u slump like this,” Marko said.

“What is alarming is that they have not been competitive f♎or 𝓡the third season now.”

The tipping point was the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, when Hamilton lost out on a record eighth title and Verstappen won his first for Red Bul🎶l.

Red Bull and Verstappen hꦗ🌱ave dominated since, and the champion is on course for a fourth title in a row this year.

Hamilton, meanwhile, is bꩵattling through hi🧸s final year at Mercedes before going to Ferrari.