Trouble for Red Bull? Verstappen's DNF in Austria exposed team's vulnerability

19:26, 01 Jul

Updated: 19:38, 01 Jul

bySavannah Lenz

For the past few races, it has been apparent that Max Verstappen is the reason why Red Bull has any points to their name. After Verstappen's unfortunate DNF, Red Bull had nothing going for them. This is what they had to say after it was all said and done.

Like the other drivers before him, Yuki Tsunoda has not adjusted well to the RB21. In Austria, he qualified 18th and finished 16th. Due to a DNF and Tsunoda being outside the top 10, Red Bull Racing left their home race without scoring any points.

Red Bull doesn't understand the issue

Team Principal Christian Horner admitted, "Yuki had a horrible race. Again, it started to go wrong for him in Q1 yesterday."

"His first run in Q1 was fine. Second run, he made a mistake at turn one, then qualified badly, and then was running in traffic, unable to pass, then picks up a penalty, and it just compounds things."

Tsunoda is not the only driver who has fallen victim to the second Red Bull car. In the past year, two other drivers have also struggled.

Christian Horner in the Red Bull garage

"We'll look to see how we can support him, but there's a big delta between the two cars."

Horner continued, "Internally, we ask all of those questions that you ask in terms of why. And we'll look at, obviously, the car has evolved over the years in a specific direction. But we'll see if we can help Yuki and rebuild his confidence in Silverstone."