Honda’s latest Formula 1 engine upgrade will not provide Red Bull with a “massive gain” at the French Granꦺd Prix, according to Pierre Gasly.

The Japanese manufacturer has continued its aggressive approach to its engine develꦏopment by bringing a ‘Spec 3’ power uniꦰt to Paul Ricard, which will be used by both Red Bull drivers and Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat.

Red Bull has so far 𝔉been unable to challenge rivals Ferrari and Merced🅺es for victories in 2019, though Gasly does not expect Honda’s latest engine offering to fully wipe out its current deficit.

“We h♒ave a new spec Honda - I think the last 🎀one we introduced was more on the reliability-side,” Gasly said.

“This one will be a bit more fo🍬cused on the performance, but we don’t expect a massive gai🐼n from it.

“I think the overa𝓰ll performance will be slightly increased but it’s not like it’s going to change massively - or catch the teams ahead of us massively.

“So let’s see what we can do during the weekend but it should give us a bit more in the race but it’s not going to be massively dif𝕴ferent i🎃n qualifying.”

But the Frenchman is hopeful of improved performance at his ✃hom🦂e race at a circuit tipped to better favour Red Bull’s package compared to the last race in Canada.

“I think it♏’s a track that probably suits ou♊r package a bit more than Canada,” he explained.

“You still have many long straights, whi🐼ch unfortunately are still a bit tricky for🌱 us, even though we are making progress.

“But I think we have new little bits on the car coming and I think we should be more competitive here than we wer🅠e in Canada.”

Teammate Max Verstappen said he does not suddenly expect to “lead the pack” in France but adde꧟d Red Bull is happy to take every added performance boost it can from H♛onda, even if it leads to early penalties.

“It’s always good to have upgrades𓆏 but I’m 🦹not expecting to suddenly lead the pack, but every little step we can have we take it, even if it means we are already on our third engine,” Verstappen said.

“Reliability is not a problem but we wa🧔nt performance. As you could see in Canada, even with not the best pace you could still easily get to a fif🅺th position anyway.

“I prefer to get more and more competitive because then comin🌳g through the field is more easy.”