Red Bull is in trouble, that much is now clear. Max Verstappen had no momentum at the Italian Grand Prix, circling the upper midfield with the calmness of an underdog, from where he could not interfere with the big guys.
All this while we are talking about an unbeatable driver from a team that was recently unbeatable... No one wants to sweep the problem under the rug anymore, Christian Horner also spoke about it openly after yet another failure:
“Obviously, our situation is worrying. But the whole team is working very hard to get out of the pits. We have an aerodynamic problem, you can see how the car is losing its balance, it just stops working. And when that happens, the driver starts to be rougher with the tyres, because he is trying to compensate for the situation. And that creates another difficulty. It is a vicious circle… If you dig really deep, there were signs of this already at the beginning of the year, even when we were winning races with a twenty-second lead. In our latest developments, we increased the downforce, but all this upset the balance, which the wind tunnel did not show, but the race track did. And the situation is that at certain levels we have reached the ceiling and, as strange as it may sound, we have to get back. With a little less downforce, we can have a better balance, which can lead to better lap times, The less tire wear, the better the car's handling.
"Now our job is to question everything. We have to examine everything, how we won races before in Miami, China, Japan, wherever, when the car was in a range where it could work smoothly. We have to find this narrow range again and, if possible, widen it," said the team boss of the team.
