Red Bull claim “we have conclusive findings” to turnaround RB20’s slump

Helmut Marko offers update on RB20's recovery

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

Helmut Marko has suggested that Red Bull are aꦇlready making progress with arresting their 2024 F1 car’s decline.

Max Verstappen hasn’t won a grand prix at six attempts and left Monza last weekend describing his RB2ಌ0 as “a monster”.

Red Bull are now looking over their shoulder at McLaren and Lando Norris in the constructᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚors’ and drivers’ championships.

“Despite our😼 non-performance, Max is still 62 points ahead,” Marko told .

“🍃But this lead can quickly shrink if wౠe continue like this.”

He admitted the need💧 to help Verstappen or risk losing the drivers’ title: “If we don't give him a drivable car and deliver a performance like that a few more times, then anything is possible.”

Marko explained﷽ how Rౠed Bull are reacting to a drab Italian Grand Prix.

“We have a tyre test with Liam Lawson in Monza and at the same time our people will analyse where w🔥e should readjust,” he said.

“We have to find the point where we took a wrong t💦urn in development.

“We already have a few conclusive findings, now we have to implement the appropriate technical changes qui🌟ckly so that the car has the right balance again.”

Verstappen leads Norris by 62 points butꦗ Red Bull’s lead over McLaren is a mere eight points.

At next weekend💙’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Norris and McLaren will set out to land an even more telling blow on Red Bull.

Striving to deliver balance to the RB20 is an even more daunཧting task because of the upcoming grands prix, Marko said.

“The next two races on the street circuits in Baku and Singapore arꦯe of little significance in this regard,” he said.

“Austin will show wheꦰther we can achieve the turnaround.”

Marko made it clear that Red Bull would prioritise Verstappen’s driver♐s’ title above the constructors’.

He also defended Sergio Perez’s role in Red Bull’s♐ shri🧸nking lead in the constructors’.

“Checo is not bad, he is simply slower. But of course, the priori𒉰ty is for Max to win the drivers' world championship,” Marko said.

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