Horner downplays Red Bull's update in Austria: 'Silverstone is a different story'

“It's a very modest upgrade this one,” Christian Horner told GPblog among others at the Red Bull Ring. Max Verstappen could only driver until Turn 3 on Lap 1, after he got hit by Andrea Kimi Antonelli, therefore, he could not put many miles into seeing how the floor would have performed for him over a race distance.

According to the Red Bull Racing team principal, a possible great result is already up for grabs at the upcoming British Grand Prix. “Let's see it Silverstone. It's a different type of circuit, it'll probably be a different temperature although there's a heatwave in the UK at the moment."

Since the beginning of the season, the Red Bull doesn't seem to have really made progress with the RB21, and Verstappen's gap further expanded with his DNF to 61 points. Horner offered an explanation for this. “I think the thing is there are no silver bullets in this business and I think that progress takes time.”

"And of course, we're working hard to understand that because we don't want to be in this situation moving forward and there's one team that's a standout, but the rest of them, it keeps moving from weekend to weekend of who the best of the rest is," Horner concluded in Spielberg.