Horner sees Zandvoort as a positive weekend: 'Gained a lot of information'

While Helmut Marko and Jos Verstappen have been outspoken about how things are at Red Bull Racing at the moment, team boss Christian Horner continues to see the positive side of the situation. He said after the race that the team collected a lot of data at Zandvoort.

After Max Verstappen finished second at Zandvoort with a gap of more than 22 seconds, Helmut Marko called the situation at Red Bull after the Dutch Grand Prix "alarming". Verstappen himself concurred with the Red Bull advisor's words. Jos Verstappen added to this, stating that the team needs to take a good look in the mirror.

Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner saw mostly the positive aspects of the race in the Netherlands during a media moment with GPblog and others. '"We've run the cars in different specifications and I think that that has actually given us quite a lot of valuable info. I think that the driver's feedback has been very positive into that as well in terms of what they're feeling from the different setups. So I think that it hopefully now gives a real direction for the engineering group," the Briton said.

The team boss also revealed that the set-up Perez's Red Bull currently has is not working well for the Mexican. "I think it was clear that Checo's race performance or race package was not the better of the two. So we've got all obviously 72 laps of data and a lot of across two different compounds of tyres now to compare that info," Horner said.

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