Max Vers꧋tappen says Red Bull must improve “every single aspect” of its 2019 Formula 1 car if it is to challenge championship leaders Mercedes.🍸 

Red Bull currently sits third in the constructors’ championship, while Verstappen is fourth in the dr🦩ivers’ standings afte𒁏r collecting two podiums and finishing inside the top five at all six races so far this season. 

But despite his strong start to the season, the Dutchman is already 59 points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton, with Red Bull trailin♕g Mercedes by a whopping 147 points. 

“We have to improve on every single aspect if we really want to challenge Mercedes,” Verstappen said. 

🐷"If we fully understood why we would have made the changes already. You always want more downforce, everybody does, it’s never enough. 

“I think we already had some tracks with st💦raights in it,” he added. “We know that Ferrari for example as great top speed s🌠o for them naturally this becomes a better track. 

“If we compare it to Monaco 𝓰it should be not as good for us but we will find out. 

“I’m not꧂ massively worried about it, because at the end of the day you can onl෴y control what you can control.”

Verstappen said it was too early to completely rule Red Bull out of contention this weekend and insisted the top speed difference to Mercedes anඣd Ferrari is not a “big, big deficit”. 

“Fir𒐪st we have to wait and see how quick we are because at the moment it’s just speculation,” he explained🤪. 

“Maybe i♐🍒t’s better than expected, you never know. We don’t have a big, big deficit. We know that we are not the quickest but we’ll try to fine-tune everything.”

While Red Bull is expected to run less downforce in Montreal to compensate for its lack of straight-line speed compared to🌠 its rivals, Verstappen is convinced Honda’s gains have enabled the team to be less extreme than in previous years. 

“In general th💞e more power you have the more dirty dow🌠nforce you can stick on,” he added. 

🥀“I think that is fair to say but most of the tracks you still have some other cars running more downforce than us but I don’t think it is as ext🧸reme as we had in 2016.”