Helmut Marko has co꧋mmented on the ongoing struggles at r꧒ivals Mercedes.

The Red Bull advisor has described his own surprise to see the once-dominant Mercedes fail to deliver a winn🌌ing car for the third season in a row.

T꧃he W15 currently langu♐ishes behind Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren.

Marko was a🃏sked by : “As an outsider you get the feeling that Mercedes are still getting worse. ♔Shouldn't all alarm bells be ringing?”

He replied: “They probably do anyway.

“What irritates me so much is that the car is really fast at ti𓃲mes, and at♐ times it runs at absolute peak times.

“Then I think: ‘Look, now they get it!’

“But that's always just a flash in the pan.”

Mercedes’ highs and lows were summed up last weekend 🐼in China.

Lewis Hamilton emerged from Friday’s qualifying for the sprint race insisting that the W15 “came alive” after his brilliant session in wet condi𓃲tions.

Hamilton then claimed an encourౠaging P2 in the sprint race behind Max Verstappen.

But he made an error in qualifyi🌄ng for the grand prix, and explained “massive changes” in set-up frꩲom his earlier sessions.

Hamilton battled froꦓm 18th on the starting grid to P9 in a Ch🌌inese Grand Prix to forget.

“It doesn’t happen overnight that you slump like this,” M🃏arko said.

“What is alarm🃏ing is that they have not been competiꦦtive for the third season now.”

The tipping point was the 2021 Abu Dhabi𒉰 Grand Prix, when Hamilton lost out on a record eighth title and Verstappen won his first for Red Bull.

Red Bull and Verstappen have dominated since, and the champion is on course for a fourt♒h title in a row this year.

Hamilton, meanwhile, is battling through his final year at Mercedes before going t🍃o Ferrari.