Christian Horner has conceded that “something fundamentally” is impacting Red Bull’s on-track performance after they struggled in F1 qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez 🐼could only secure seventh and eighth on the grid for Sunday’s race at Monza.

It’s Verstappen’s worst qualifying result sin𝔉ce the 2023🧸 Singapore Grand Prix, when he failed to make it into the top 10.

It continues Red Bull’s recent run of poor results▨, leaving their position at the top of the F1 constructors’ championship se𒁃riously under threat.

Weirdly, Verstappen’s best time in qualifying came on used tyres in Q2 - which was f🍌our-tenths faster than his even🧔tual best lap in Q3.

Reflecting on Red Bull’s issues, Horner told Sky Sports: “It’s very tricky. We simply don't understand how we did a 1m19.6s on scrubbed tyre💫s and then couldn't go faster on new tyres than a 1m20s, the balance just isn't there.

“Youꩵ can hear from his comments that something fundamentally is happening that we🐼 aren't on top of and we need to understand why on the older tyres we were able to do a lap-time and then on two sets of new tyres not get anywhere near it.

"In Q2, it didn't look too bad, still the handling ch🅠aracteristics Max were talking about, but in Q3, there was something amiss that all the others can improve on new tyres but we were miles away, so we need to understand it quickly.”

In a bid to cure their issues, Red Bull reverted to an older specification of floo🦩r at the last race at Zandvoort.

However, it didn’t cﷺhange much for Verstappen - who ran the old൩er floor - finishing over 22 seconds off the lead.

Horner added: “We’re looking at everything. We ran an older spec last weekend to ♒see if that addressed the iss𝕴ues at all.

“The reality was we still had the same handling characteristics and issues with that with the earlier spec from the beginning of the ye🐭ar. An awful lot of data for the guys but a lot to get our head around.

“We need to address it quickly. We can see that the McL💛arens have made a significant step over the last few races. We’re now behind Ferrari and Mercedes here as well. A lot to do. Race points are tomorrow but obviously starting seventh and eighth, that’s going to be tough.”