Red Bull need points from both its drivers to catch Ferrari, says Christian Horner

Christian Horner believes Red Bull Racing need both of its drivers to score consistently strong points in order to catch Ferrari in the constructors' championship.

Pierre Gasly has come under increased pressure recently with some underwhelming and disappointing performances since his move to Red Bull; most recently, the DNF in Germany.

Now, with Max Verstappen having won two races for Red Bull, the pressure mounts even more on the Frenchman, with the energy drink brand sitting just 44 points behind Ferrari in second-place.

“I think if we can start double scoring that’s our target in the second half of the year to close that gap down,” Horner said.

“It’s been up and down. Gasly had a strong qualifying. He had a difficult first pit stop, there was a problem with the right-rear wheel nut and then they had to hold him because the whole queue of cars came in.

“He was recovering well, recovering, recovering, recovering, then on the last restart he passed Vettel but went wide on three consecutive laps at Turn 1 and that’s where the other cars got past him.

“And then obviously racing with Albon they tripped over each other which was frustrating because it was a good opportunity to take a lot of points out of Ferrari.

“Instead of taking 20-odd points out of them we’ve only taken seven or eight.”